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Air CURRENTS is a curriculum designed for middle and high school math, science and social studies classes to educate students about air, air pollution and air monitoring techniques. "CURRENTS" stands for Collaboration of Urban, Rural and Regional Environmental Networks of Teachers and Students.
The project is managed by NESCAUM, the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, an interstate association of air quality control divisions in the Northeast states. NESCAUM coordinates with local project partners in Brooklyn and Buffalo, NY and Camden and Newark, NJ.
The 1999 - 2001 Air CURRENTS Project is funded by a $236,600 grant through EPA's EMPACT program (Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking) to NESCAUM.
Brooklyn, NY, January 10, 2000 - Students Write Letter to The New York Times Editor After Doing Air Monitoring Experiment (Text follows)
New York Times, Brooklyn Bureau
Attn: Jim Yardley
16 Court Street, Suite 2502
Brooklyn, NY 11241
To The Editor Of the New York Times
On behalf of the ninth grade at Ericsson Junior High School 126 In Green Point Brooklyn, I would like to address the editor of the New York Times, concerning a very serious health and environmental problem. New York has a marvelous transportation system and while this benefits hundreds of people in the city, it also poses as a growing problem regarding the quality of air in basically all areas of the city.
Everyday, public buses that use diesel fuel emit dangerously large amounts of fine particulate matter and other air pollutants. Trucks, waste haulers, and other commercial vehicles are all complicity in their role as major contributors to bad air quality.
As this alarming situation affects the health of everyone coming in contact with polluted air and also damages nature, contaminates crops, and causes deterioration to our architectural structures, we the students of JHS 126 have decided to help clean up the air. We ask all New Yorkers to join in and think of new ways of how we can solve this problem and also to support organizations that work at cleaning up the air everyday.
Being the largest circulating newspaper, we ask the New York Times to voice these issues and create awareness on ways to improve the city's air quality. Just by putting these words in print would mean taking a major step towards improving air quality of N.Y.C. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Tasmia
Khan
You are invited to analyze the Brooklyn air quality data.
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