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Landscape pattern-focused environmental justice (EJ) research has tended to use high-resolution data. Because of the technical difficulties involved in producing high-resolution land cover data for larger extents or at frequent intervals, this research tends to focus on a snapsho...

A U.S. EPA team, consisting of the Office of Research and Development and Region 6 (Dallas) and Region 8 (Denver), deployed passive-diffusive sorbent tubes as part of a method evaluation study around one oil and natural gas production pad in both the Barnett Shale Basin in Texas ...

Background and Objectives: The interaction between environmental insults and human health is a complex process. Environmental exposures tend to cluster and disamenities such as landfills or industrial plants are often located in neighborhoods with high a percentage of minority a...

Understanding the spatial distribution of environmental amenities requires consideration of social and biogeophysical factors, and how they interact to produce patterns of environmental justice or injustice. In this study, we explicitly account for terrain, a key local environmen...

Spatially-explicit ecosystem service valuation (ESV) allows for the identification of the location and magnitude of services provided by natural ecosystems along with an economic measure of their value based upon benefit transfer. While this provides an important function in term...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD) and EPA Region 8 are collaborating under the EPA’s Regional Applied Research Effort (RARE) program to evaluate ground-based remote sensing technologies that could be used to characterize emis...

A U.S. EPA team, consisting of the Office of Research and Development and Region 6 (Dallas) and Region 8 (Denver), deployed passive-diffusive sorbent tubes as part of a method evaluation study around one oil and natural gas production pad in both the Barnett Shale Basin in Texas ...

This subproduct is a conference presentation covering ROCS linked to odor app and other odor/air toxics sensor measurements conducted in the Rubbertown area in Louisville, KY. (Abstract to be updated with details after subproduct has been generated).

A Health Impact Assessment was conducted for the Southwest Main Corridor area of Rockford, IL in collaboration wiht City planning officials, EPA Region 5, EPA Office of Research and Development, and EPA Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization. Results indicated that interve...

Environmentally responsible oil and gas production requires accurate knowledge of emissions from long-term production operations1, which can include methane, volatile organic compounds, and hazardous air pollutants. Well pad emissions vary based on the geologically-determined com...

The goal for this report was to examine current municipal solid waste (MSW) management infrastructure of Davenport, Iowa and provide scenarios with resilience, sustainability, and equity considerations in mind. The City of Davenport, Iowa was selected as the project site through ...

The goal for this study was to examine current municipal solid waste (MSW) management infrastructure of Onondaga County NY and provide scenarios with resilience, sustainability, and equity considerations in mind. Resilience can be defined as ability of the MSW management system t...

This presentation describes the results of a GIS study that looked at the demographics of populations in near-source environments around ports.

This presentation includes three case studies related to citizen science, translational science, and land revitalization. It presents result of the studies and how they applied data and information to local-scale environmental health decision-making. The steps and elements of Hea...

Environmental changes impact people’s perceptions, values, and uses of waterbodies. Understanding the impacts of environmental changes can help improve governance, practitioner engagement, and user education. We will discuss the green infrastructure (GI) possibilities of cr...

Our results indicate that environmental justice issues continue to be a concern in port areas. Within the 10 km domain of the port boundary, the Ports of Houston and Virginia had the greatest disparities in median income combined with the greater percentages of Blacks (in Virgini...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) is optimizing preconcentration-based gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) analytical methods for determination of ultra-trace concentrations of ethylene oxide (EtO) in ambient...

Low-income and minority neighborhoods frequently lack healthful resources to which wealthier communities have access. Though important, the addition of facilities such as recreation centers can be costly and take time to implement. Urban green infrastructure, such as street trees...

<P>There are large numbers of industrial swine operations that may pose a risk to the health and quality of life of these communities if the industry continues to grow at its current pace. This study intends to evaluate this situation as one of the major and emerging environment...

With recent technological advances, low-cost time-resolved sensors may become effective tools to support time-integrated passive sampling strategies by helping to decipher origin of emissions in real-time. As part of the Petroleum Refinery Risk and Technology Review, New Source ...

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Method 325A/B describes the collection (Method 325A) and analysis (Method 325B) of volatile air toxics compounds by passive or diffusive sampling on thermal desorption (TD) tubes. Method 325B lists diffusive uptake rates (DURs) ...

There is an increasing understanding that top-down regulatory and technology driven responses are not sufficient to address current and emerging environmental challenges such as climate change, sustainable communities, and environmental justice. The vast majority of environmenta...

<br>Geospatial techniques were used to study the potential impact of two exotic mosquitoes, the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse) and Ochlerotatus japonicus japonicus (Theobald), on the epidemiology of West Nile virus in Maryland. These two species have established p...

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate an approach to characterize the spatial variability in ambient air concentrations using mobile platform measurements. This approach may be useful for air toxic assessments in Environmental Justice applications, epidemiological studies...

The following abstract is for presentation at the 2019 Air and Waste Management Association’s Air Quality Measurements and Methods Conference in Durham, NC, April 2-4, 2019. Leak detection and repair (LDAR) prog...