Rivers and streams are sampled to track pollution from industry, agriculture, sewers, and cities.
Meantime, SkyTruth does pathbreaking work around oil spills, mountaintop coal mining and hydraulic fracturing – for example, tracking pollution from unconventional oil and gas drilling, and using crowdsourcing to track the growth of fracking.
Local environmental officials throughout the Gulf Coast are feverishly collecting water, sediment and marine animal tissue samples that will be used in the coming months to help track pollution levels resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The solution to that problem, said Daniel Valentine, a sensor product line manager at Delphi, was designing the sensor so that it tracks pollution trends instead of measuring precise levels of foul gases.
THE NEWS Local officials who are collecting water, sediment and animal tissue samples to track pollution levels from the spill -- data that will help determine BP's financial liability for the disaster -- questioned the independence of the lab where they are being instructed to send the samples.
4 25 p.m. | Addendum on methane leaks added | Given that government resources for environmental regulation (and just about everything else) will be constrained for a long time to come, I've been enthusiastic about efforts by the public to take a D.I.Y. (do it yourself) role in tracking pollution or resource issues, whether on the ground or online.
California is 'launching our own damn satellite' to track pollution, with help from Planet.
Plume is a wearable device that tracks pollution around you – kind of like a Fitbit for air quality if you will.
Several government agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Weather Service, maintain a Web site that tracks pollution monitors placed across the country.
Each of our picks consistently makes the A-list from Heal the Bay, an organization that measures and tracks pollution at 475 California beaches.
