Journal article
Refinery Air Watch: Enhancing Data Infrastructure for Environmental Justice
Environmental justice, v 17(4), pp 298-304
01 Aug 2024
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
Regulations requiring ambient air monitoring at oil refinery fencelines have resulted in new data about air quality in fenceline communities. However, these data do not fully address environmental injustices unless communities can create and access interpretations that meaningfully represent their experience. The Refinery Air Watch website (refineryairwatch.org) further promotes environmental justice by making fenceline monitoring data readily available for download, offering metrics that highlight, rather than minimize, the impact of pollution on communities, and illustrating the systemic problems of refinery pollution through comparisons of facilities, corporations, and states. Refinery Air Watch has yielded insights useful to community members in their advocacy on local issues, as well as the recommendation that policies for fenceline monitoring include requirements for data infrastructures, such as application programming interfaces for all data and websites that offer users the ability to download data.
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- Title
- Refinery Air Watch: Enhancing Data Infrastructure for Environmental Justice
- Creators
- Gwen Ottinger - Drexel University, Center for Science, Technology, and Society
- Publication Details
- Environmental justice, v 17(4), pp 298-304
- Publisher
- Mary Ann Liebert, Inc
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- 1352143 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001193322600001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85189882793
- Other Identifier
- 991021866846604721
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