Pollution and Emissions
This is what GHG stands for
What is greenhouse gas?
This is one health impact of air pollution that uses inhalers as one of the medications
What is Asthma?
This solution relates to ways people can get around areas to decrease air and carbon emissions using publicly funded routes and infrastructure
What is public transportation, OR biking/bike share?
This large vehicle emits PM 2.5 when driven
What are diesel trucks?
This public transit agency is currently in a deficit and may cut service in 2027
What is BART?
This is causing the changing of the earth's rotation
What is the melting ice glaciers and ice sheets
This pollutant is very small and can get into your lungs through diesel truck emissions
What is PM2.5?
These are two characteristics of Environmental justice//impacted communities
What is BIPOC, low-income, marginalized?
This solution relates to sources of energy
What is renewable fuels/green energy?
This refinery and gas chain calls what Bay Area city home
What is Chevron in Richmond?
What body of water is Lake Merritt
What is Estuary or Tidal Lagoon?
The cause of the fish kill at Lake Merritt in 2022
What is an algae bloom
This is the type of pollutant is formed from chemical reactions
What is Type 2 Pollutant?
This practice of the 1900s has been linked to worsened air quality and health for communities in urban cities such as Oakland and San Francisco
What is redlining?
These are 3 communities with AB617 designation in the East Bay
What is West Oakland, Richmond//San Pablo, East Oakland?
This freeway does NOT allow trucks
What is I-580?
This is created when a tree is struck by lightning, but remains resilient and promotes the birth/growth of trees surrounding it.
What is a family circle?
This organization came to guest speak for us during Week 1 of the Program
What is Communities for a Better Environment
This type of pollutant is monitored by New Voices are Rising AND we are monitoring in what communities
What is particulate matter, and Pittsburg, Oakland, and Richmond?
Greenspaces help reduce this harmful phenomenon, which raises temperatures in areas with few trees and lots of pavement
What is the urban heat island effect?
This solution involves using data and science to track the impacts of air pollution sources in communities
What is air quality monitoring?
This is an area has been designated a superfund site due to the high amounts of radioactive waste
What is Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard?
This indigenous group was the first to inhabit Muir Woods, taking care of the land
Who are the Miwok people?
The year of the Warren County Protests
What is 1982
This California bill was created to address air pollution in marginalized communities, creating committees of organizations and citizens to address issues.
What is AB617?
These are two types of pollutants made from pollution, define primary and secondary pollutants, AND an example of each
What is
- Pollution straight from the industry (Primary)
- Pollution that mixes with the environment after emission (Secondary)
- PM2.5, NOX, SOX (Primary)
- Ground-level ozone (Secondary)
These are two websites used to increase awareness and check in information related to current air quality and environmental justice impacts
What is Calenviroscreen AND Purple Air?
This is the name of a pollution passageway in West Contra Costa County. Name the passageway AND one city this pollution source is located in
What is the East Bay Refinery Corridor AND one of these cities
Pinole, Hercules, Rodeo, Crockett, Port Costa, Benicia, Martinez, Mt. View, Pacheco, Vine Hill, Clyde,
This causes sudden oak death in redwoods
What is a type of invasive fungus/mold?
This kind of land ice is the main contributor to sea level rise (specify country)
What is Greenland OR Antarctica ice sheets