TRUSTED SOURCES
TRUSTED SOURCES
For more information on Volatile Organic Compounds, visit the Environmental Protection Agency’s page on VOCs.
For more information on Hazardous Air Pollutants, visit the Environmental Protection Agency’s page on HAPs.
For more information on Particulate Matter, visit the Environmental Protection Agency’s page on PM.
For more information on how pollutants can arise from facilities, cars, and household pesticide, visit the Environmental Protection Agency’s page on HAP sources.
For more information on environmental justice, visit the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
For more information on sacrifice zones, visit the environmental health research study.
For more information on principles of environmental justice, visit EJnet.org.
For more information on how environmental justice is gaining traction in Louisville, visit the courier journal’s article regarding its progress.
For more information on how 1 in 12 kids have asthma due to air pollution, visit the Environmental Defense Fund and NewScientist.
For more information on how the size of air pollutants affects how easily these pollutants enter your body, visit the American Lung Association
For more information on how billions of people breathe unhealthy air everyday, visit the World Health Organization.
For more information on what factors affect the toxicity of air pollutants, visit 2017 Health Equity Report.
For more information on how air pollution can lead to disease, visit sources on how it can lead to asthma, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
For more information on how children are more susceptible to air pollution than adults, visit the Environmental Protection Agency.
For more information on how living near industrial areas may harm your health, visit the study on population near industrial areas.
For more information on what chemicals are being released around your area, visit the Toxic Release Inventory.
For more information on health equity, visit Louisville’s Health Effects From Chemical Exposures.
For more information on Kentuckians invested creating healthy communities, visit Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.
For more information on sustainability in Louisville, visit Louisville Sustainability Council.
For more information on national responses to environmental hazard, visit Sierra Club.
For more information on identifying environmental problems in West Louisville, visit West Jefferson County Community Taskforce.
For more information on using data in advocacy work, visit Until Justice Data Partners.
For more information on a grassroots organization of residents living near Rubbertown, visit REACT.
For more information on how Louisville addresses sources of air pollution,visit the Strategic Toxic Air Reduction Program.
For more information on the history of Rubbertown, visit Louisville Public Media.
For more information on asthma risk in Jefferson County, visit AirLouisville.
For more information on Jefferson County having the 5th most industrial toxic air emissions in 2013, visit the Courier Journal
For more information on the history of air pollution in Louisville, visit Air Pollution Control District.
For more information on emergency sirens in Rubbertown, visit WHAS11.
For more information on specific chemicals and risks in West Louisville, visit the West Louisville Air Toxics Study Risk Assessment.
For more information on the history toxic air monitoring in Louisville, visit Courier Journal.
For more information on how cancer risk is higher in West Louisville, visit Louisville Public Media.
For more information on federal, state, and local representatives who may help, visit Common Cause.
For more information on population statistics, visit Kentucky State Data Center.
For more information on how to sign up for notifications about local gas leaks or chemical spills, visit Louisville Metro Emergency Services.
For more information on odors from the sewer system, visit Metropolitan Sewer District.
For more information on investigating chemical odor concerns, visit Air Pollution Control District.
For more information on logging odors and viewing where odors are most frequently located in Louisville, visit Smell My City app.
For more information on what exposures cause what odors, visit the Environmental Protection Agency’s Odor Wheel.
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