alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to Environment@beehaw.orgEnglish · 7 months agoEVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprintnews.berkeley.eduexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareaveryminya@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agohttps://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/historical-air-quality-data/historical-data-by-year Comparing 2021 and 2022 it looks like there are marginal gains in quality, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this trend continued (if I’m reading it correctly of course)
minus-squareTehPers@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-27 months agoThose charts seem to be from SoCal. This might be a better reference for Bay Area: https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality/air-monitoring-data/#/ Worth adding that Bay Area has manufacturing and refining. Not sure how much that affects air quality relative to cars.
minus-squareaveryminya@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agoYeah I was looking for a good historical air quality data set and just went with the closest I could find. Chevron certainly needs to have eyes on it!
https://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/historical-air-quality-data/historical-data-by-year
Comparing 2021 and 2022 it looks like there are marginal gains in quality, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this trend continued (if I’m reading it correctly of course)
Those charts seem to be from SoCal. This might be a better reference for Bay Area: https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality/air-monitoring-data/#/
Worth adding that Bay Area has manufacturing and refining. Not sure how much that affects air quality relative to cars.
Yeah I was looking for a good historical air quality data set and just went with the closest I could find.
Chevron certainly needs to have eyes on it!