Articles About pollution

• Air quality plummets in Midwest, haze returns to Yellow Springs

  By Reilly DixonJune 28, 2023

  

  On Wednesday morning, June 28, the air quality index, or AQI, for Yellow Springs hit 211, classified as “very unhealthy conditions” — the highest it’s been all month.

• Haze hangs over Ohio Valley

  By Reilly DixonJune 7, 2023

  

  Air quality in the Ohio Valley has plummeted in recent days as smoke from widespread Canadian wildfires continues to drift into the U.S.

• Glen Helen’s own superheroes

  By Guest ContributorSeptember 20, 2018

  

  A group of three volunteers arrived one recent rainy Saturday afternoon to help Glen Helen Ranger Susan Smith clean up litter and graffiti in the nature preserve.

• EPA studies vapor in Vernay site cleanup

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 7, 2017

  

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is trying to determine whether vapors from an underground plume of toxic chemicals expose neighbors of a federal cleanup to dangerous levels of carcinogens, or if residents are safe from immediate and long-term harm.

• Particulate pollution levels monitored— Cause of spike is unknown

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 20, 2014

  

  A regional air pollution agency is investigating an unprecedented and potentially dangerous spike in air pollution in Yellow Springs in December when an exceedingly high concentration of lung-penetrating particles was recorded.