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The air children breathe may have an impact on their upbringing.

A study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows certain low-income populations are being exposed to higher levels of dangerous fine particulate air pollution more than other groups.

Victoria Petro-Eschler, a mother of three, lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. They are all too aware of how the air they breathe affects their daily lives.

“We never have just a quick little 48-hour head cold. We have a cough that starts, and we try to like Dimetapp it out, you know, and then it always settles into their lungs,” Petro-Eschler said. “You can't avoid it here. It is part of everything. It determines if my kids get to play inside or outside on certain days. You know, my kids go from one highway that they're in the shadow of for school and another highway that they're in the shadow of that home.”

The air quality also determines how often the children are able to attend school.

“My kids have been late for days out of the past two weeks because we have been dealing with chronic coughs and upper respiratory,” Petro-Eschler said.

They live on the west side of Salt Lake City, a community with a median income of $49,000. An airport, an interstate interchange, a quarry and multiple refineries are their neighbors.

Richard Holman was one of the founding members of the Westside Coalition, an organization that made enough noise about the problem that they gained the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency. While each individual company meets EPA standards, it’s the combination that affects nearby residents.

“And it's not difficult to prove what's happening on the west side. These people are compromised,” Holman said.

A University of Utah study of 174 Salt Lake City County public schools showed schools with predominately minority students were exposed to worse air quality. A separate study showed there were more school absences when the air quality was poor.

Harvard professor Francesca Dominici was part of a study that looked at air quality throughout the United States. The study showed that air quality is not just a problem in Salt Lake City.

“The most polluted area is the one that there is a lower socioeconomic status where they have multiple environmental stressors,” Dominici said.

Environmental stressors forced Holman to eventually move, out of fear for his health. Those same stressors ignited Petro-Eschler to run for city council.

“To fix environmental issues is going to be slow and tedious. To fix the equity issues, the racial, the ethnic, the gender disparities, tt's going to be slow and tedious,” Dominici added.

The EPA is evaluating environmental stressors for the next six months.

Petro-Eschler worries a fix won't come soon enough.

“My doctor, when I told her this last time, when I went to get the steroids, I looked at her and said, 'Am I killing my kids by living where I live?' And she looked at me and said, 'One of these you know,' she doesn't want to tell me that.”




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Chilly air settles in

Cold air settles in tonight and will stay with us through Sunday. Look for lots of sunshine next week, too!



THAT SITTING OUTSIDEAI WTING TO GET TICKETS OR SOMETHGIN THAT. NO, NO. YEAH, I’LL PASS TOO. JUST WATCH IT RIGHT HERE. YEAH, NICE AND WARM. THAT’S PROBABLY WHAT PEOPLE WOULD LOOK LIKE HERE IF THEY WERE WAITING OUTSIDE, RIGHT? THAT’S WHAT I LOOKED LIKE WHEN I LEFT FOR DINNER BREAK. I HAVE MY WINTER PARKA BACK THERE GUYS. IT’S LIKEO S COLD OUTSIDE. WE’RE GONNA CONTINUE TO SEE THAT THROUGH TOMORROW. SO A LITTLE COLD SNAP HERE AND THEN WE’RE GONNA GET BACK INTO SOME MORE WARMTH AS WE HEAD INTO THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY, BELIEVE IT OR NOT RIGHT NOW. THE CHILL HAS SETTLED INTO NCCIINNATI. FOR SURE, IF GOT MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES RIGHT NOW, IT’S 37 BUT WHEN YOU FACTOR IN A BREEZE TO NEAR 20 FEELS LIKE 27, SO THAT’S WHAT IT FEELS LEIK WHEN YOU STEP OUTSIDE. MOSTF O US FEELING THOSE WIND CHILLS AND THE HIGH 20S TO LOW 30S RIGHT NOW. SO JUST A CHILLY CHILLY NIGHT HERE AND WE CONNUTIE WITH ON LDCO RIGHT INTO TOMORROW MORE CLOUDS THAN ANYTHING HERE ON OUR SATELLITE LIVE RADAR SHOWING CENI DRY CONDITIONS. I THINK WE’LL SEE SOME BRESAK IN THE CLOUDS AT TIMES ESPECIALLY INTO TOMORROW MORNING, BUT OVERCAST BE THE TNDRE AS WE HEAD THROUGH TH OEVERNIGHT HOURS. YOU CAN SEE THE COLD FRONT HERE CONTINUES TO PUSH EAST. IT’S GOING TO TAKE ALL THE RAIN WI ITTH AND THEN THE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM BUILDING IN FROM THE WEST SO THAT’S GOING TO BE THE PICTURE HERE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THIS IS REALLY GONNA HOLD TIGHT TO OUR WEATHER RIGHT NOW. WE’RE ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE HIGH. SO WE’RE IN THOSE NORTHERLY WINDS AND THAT’S TAPPING INTO A LOT OF COLD AIR UP IN CANADA, AND IT’S DRAWING IT DOWN INTO OUR REGION. SO THINGS ARE GOING TO FEEL QUITE CHILLY THROUGH THE REST OF THIS EVENING AND INTO THE LAST PART OF THE WEEKEND HERE FUTURECAST. I CHOSE. ATTEMPT AND DECREASEN I CLOUD COVER. WE’VE GOT AITTLE L BIT OF CLOUD BREAK HEADING IN FOR THE MORNING HOURS TOMORROW, BUT WE’RE NOT LOOKING AT ANYTHING IN THE WAY OF SUNNY SKIES TO START OUT YOUR SUNDAY. I THINK PARTLY SUNNY FOR A GOOD CHUNK OF THE DAY HERE YOU MIGHT AGAIN SEE A COUPLE OF FLURRIES EARLY ON OUT OF SOME OF THOSE CLOUDS AND AS WE GO THROUGH YOUR AFTERNOON HOURS ON SUNDAY SLOWLY DECREASING THE CLO COVUDER. YOU CAN SEE HERE BY THREE. I THINK A LOT MORE SUNSHINE STARTING TO SNEAK IN THEN AS WE HEAD TOWARDS SUNSET WE SHOULD BE BACK UNDERHO TSE PARTLY CLOUDY TO EVEN MOSTLY. SKIES SO FOR TONHTIG ABOUT 28 DEGREES STRAFE FLURRY POSSIBLE AT TIMESND A I THINK WE WILL STAY BREEZY AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND FOR TOMORROW 39 TO 40 DEGREES JUST DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU LIVE IF YOU HAVE MORE CLOUD BREAKS, I THINK YOU GET TO 40 IF YOU’RE UNDER THE CLOUDS A BIT LONGER YOU’RE IN THE HIGH 30S TOMORROW, SO STJU A COLD DAY, BUT LOOKING AHEAD TO CHRISTMAS GONNA FEEL ANYTHING BUT CHRISTMASSY AS WE HEAD INTO THE HOLIDAY HERE CHRIMASTS EVE 56 MILD TEMPERATURES FEW SHOWERS, AND THEN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY HERE LOOK AT THE 63 DEGREES. THAT’S WTHA WE’RE THINKING RIGHT NOW. SO POTENTIAL FOR SEOM LATE DECEMBER WARMTH HERE, AND I THINK WE’RE AOLS LOOKING AT SOME RAINFALL. I WOULD SAY OF THE TWO DAYS CHRISTMAS DAY LOOKING LIKEHE T BEST CHANCE FOR SOME SPOTTY SHOWERS. SO WE’LL KEEP AN EYE ON THAT, BUT I WOULD DEFINITELY PLAN ON SOME PRETTY MILD CONDITIONS HERE AS YOU HEAD INTO THE LAST PTAR OF THE WEEK AND THE HOLIDAY. SO LOOKING AHEAD TO THIS WEEK. WE’VE GOT AOT L OF SUNSHINE IN MONDAY BRINGS PARTLY CLOUDY TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES TEMPS IN THE GHHI 40S. WE’VE GOT SOME LOW 40S, WCHHI TYPICAL FOR THIS TIME OF THE AIR FOR TUESDAY WEDNESDAY, AND THEN WE’RE BKAC TO THE HIGH 40S TO LOW 50S ON THURSDAY CLOUDS START TO THICKENP U THURSDAY NIGHT INTO CHRISTMAS EVE ANDEW F SHOWERS FOR YOUR FRIDAY 56. I THINK WE STAY INHE T 50S FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY TEMPERATURES ARE GOING TO RISE HERE AHEAD OF OUR NEXT SYSTEM. THAT’LL BRING US CHRISTMAS DAY WARMTH AND SOME SCATTER

Chilly air settles in

Cold air settles in tonight and will stay with us through Sunday. Look for lots of sunshine next week, too!


Cold air settles in tonight and will stay with us through Sunday. Look for lots of sunshine next week, too!

Cold air settles in tonight and will stay with us through Sunday. Look for lots of sunshine next week, too!


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MEMPHIS — Dealing with COVID-19 has been a sticky situation for schools.

But at the Bornblum Jewish Community School in Memphis, they’re turning to new technology to keep air quality clean.

“We have a new filter system being installed in the school right now,” said Daniel Weiss, the head of school at Bornblum.

Proper ventilation and air quality are part of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommendations for keeping schools open and children safe.

“More or less it works like a human nose,” said Clemens Sparowitz, chief operating officer of Dexwet, which makes the air filters that are being installed at the school.

They are coated with a sticky substance that is designed to catch particles in the air.

“The filters get moistured with liquid and so any particle that collides with the filter is permanently bonded in there,” said Sparowitz.

Air quality is a concern for small schools like Bornblum as well as large schools like the ones in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), where more than 600,000 students learn every day.

“We upgraded to MERV 13. That’s 110 thousand filters. MERV 13s are made out of the same raw material that N-95 and hospital gowns are made out of,” said Robert Laughton, the director of maintenance and operations for LAUSD.

“We spent last summer, close to $3 million, re-wiring every air conditioner in the district, just to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” he added.

The CDC recommends that air systems start running at least two hours before someone needs to be in the room. All of the improvements, big and small, can be expensive.

The COVID-19 relief bill, passed in March, included over $120 billion in funds for schools, some of which is specifically earmarked for ventilation improvements.

“The biggest concern always was, how's the air inside the building?” said Weiss.

For Weiss, focusing on air quality and experimenting with new technologies is helping him keep his students exactly where they need to be.

“There’s nothing better than having a full classroom on campus, learning with their teacher, being able to experience all of the things the teacher wants them to do. You can’t do that in the same way when you’re learning virtually. We needed to be on campus," said Weiss.




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The Exolung is aiming for the sweet spot between scuba and snorkeling by using the power of kicking legs to pull a steady supply of air down from the surface.

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