San Francisco locals implements community program to track air pollution
A small neighbourhood in San Francisco called Bayview-Hunters point, which reportedly has a disproportionate concentration of toxic sites which led to 86 percent of its children to develop asthma before kindergarten, has implemented its own community air monitor program. The program, named Marie Harrison Bayview Air Monitoring Project, consists of 10 air monitors placed around the city. The locals expressed their hopes of reducing pulmonary diseases among children with the new project after the government failed in taking any concrete measures to tackle the same. Previous studies had also established higher than average cancer patients in the Bayview area, mainly caused by the toxic air.