NY deploys labs on wheels to measure air pollution block by block

Aclima driver Ramses Diaz drives the morning shift through lower Manhattan, measuring air temperature in real time while listening to Brian Lehrer. Erald Xhaferaj (right), Aclima’s fleet manager, stands on the other side of the laboratory, which processes air quality readings and is located in the car’s trunk.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has deployed an air monitoring program that uses retrofitted cars to spit out pollution data in real time. [ more › ]