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A project will get underway later this year to monitor the air quality in Springfield, Massachusetts – once dubbed the “asthma capital” of the United States.
Sensors will be placed throughout the city to measure air pollution levels and provide information in real time to help people take steps to protect themselves from exposure.
The project is being paid for by the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey with $50,000 from settlement funds paid by polluters.
I give credit to my team for thinking about creative ways to use that settlement money, Healey said.
Healey announced the project during an Earth Day event at Adams Park in Springfield’s Upper Hill neighborhood.
BOSTON On Earth Day, Attorney General Maura Healey joined local elected officials and community leaders in Springfield to launch a new collaborative air quality monitoring project to measure air pollution levels and provide data to inform public health responses in the city known as having the highest rates of asthma in the country.
Today’s announcement was made at an event in Adams Park in Springfield and is part of AG Healey’s work to prioritize protecting public health in environmental justice communities in Massachusetts. AG Healey also joined members of her Environmental Protection Division to plant trees – two Musashino Zelkova and three Heritage River Birch – in the park.