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  NRDC: Smoke Out: Three Measures for Cleaning Up Diesel Air Pollution in New York City
Air pollution from diesel-powered trucks, buses and construction equipment is a major public health threat for the people of New York City, triggering asthma attacks, bronchitis, heart disease, increased cancer risks and as many as 1,800 premature deaths each year.
Air pollution from diesel-powered trucks, buses and construction equipment is a major public health threat for the people of New York City, triggering thousands of asthma attacks, bronchitis, heart disease, increased cancer risks and as many as 1,800 premature deaths each year.
New York should follow the lead of other state, regional and municipal programs that are successfully retiring, replacing and retrofitting thousands of old polluting diesel vehicles.
www.nrdc.org /air/transportation/psmoke.asp   (3780 words)

  
 New Scientist Breaking News - New York air to have its genes sequenced
New York air to have its genes sequenced
Scientists say that sequencing the "air's" genome is the natural progression from Venter's current project that has already uncovered 1.2 million new genes from organisms living in the Sargasso Sea.
Comparing an air sample taken during a suspected bioterror attack to the normal genetic "fingerprint" of the air could confirm or rule out the presence of dangerous microbes.
www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7112   (699 words)

  
 SCHUMER: HUGE IMPROVEMENTS IN NEW YORK AIR SAFETY ONLY FIX HALF THE PROBLEM; WHAT ABOUT THE AIRPORTS WHERE OUR FLIGHTS ...
With a new federal study showing that New York's air traffic controllers had the largest reduction in operational errors anywhere in the nation from 2001 to 2002, US Senator Charles E. Schumer today called on the Federal Aviation Administration to take several steps to boost accountability at other airports in the country.
Schumer noted that the New York TRACON hired a new Quality Assurance manager in April 2001 who focused on identifying the factors that lead to air traffic control errors and developing strategies for reducing these errors.
Additionally, New York and the two other air traffic control centers that had the greatest decrease in errors from 2001 to 2002- the Washington DC Center and the Los Angeles Center - had increased federal oversight of their air traffic controllers after September 11, 2001.
schumer.senate.gov /SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/PR01608.pf.html   (882 words)

  
 The 105th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard.
Based at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York, the 105th Airlift Wing and its flying component, the 137th Airlift Squadron, provide airlift operations to worldwide locations in peacetime and in war.
The unit retained its air defense mission until 1958 when it began conversion to the F-86H and was reorganized as the 105th Tactical Fighter Group on May 1, 1958.
Air turbine motors in the landing gear pods also power the hydraulic systems and the main landing gear kneeling motors.
www.philippecolin.net /105thAW.html   (2830 words)

  
 TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 4. Toxic Haste:. Alyssa Katz.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But a persistent trickle of new information has made it embarrassingly clear that federal, state, and city agencies responsible for protecting public health and the environment have failed to admit publicly a very simple fact: No one can yet claim to know the extent of the environmental fallout.
The Daily News has been covering the story more aggressively than any paper in New York, detailing the health problems of undocumented cleanup workers and, in January, breaking the news that the EPA ombudsman has launched an investigation into the agency's response to the disaster.
With the backing of Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York, whose district includes ground zero, EPA ombudsman Robert Martin and his chief investigator, Hugh Kaufman, are focusing on the environmental agency's insistence that assessing and cleaning up dust from the disaster are the responsibility of landlords of nearby apartment and office buildings.
www.prospect.org /print/V13/4/katz-a.html   (1553 words)

  
 New York Enroute Air Traffic Control Center (New York Center)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
New York Center, in Ronkonkoma, New York, is one of 20 Federal Aviation Administration radar facilities nationwide that provide air traffic services for high altitude aircraft.
New York Center is unique because it functions as a domestic enroute control facility as well as an oceanic control facility.
New York Center has 533 people: 79 are assigned to Airway Facilities; and 351 controllers and 103 staff, management, supervisory and support personnel assigned to Air Traffic.
aea.faa.gov /aea5/pr1.htm   (720 words)

  
 GNN - In New York, Air Pollution Reaches Babies in the Womb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In a study of newborns and their mothers in New York City, scientists found that developing babies had accumulated a relatively high number of genetic mutations, and they linked the mutations to emissions from vehicles and other sources of urban pollution.
Mothers and newborns had the same level of DNA damage from air pollutants, but the researchers estimate that the fetus is exposed to a ten-fold lower dose of pollutants than the mother because the placenta serves as a filter.
The scientists were able to measure the level of DNA damage from air pollutants in mothers and newborns by analyzing stretches of mutated DNA, called biomarkers, that have been associated with exposure to diesel emissions and other air pollutants.
www.genomenewsnetwork.org /articles/2004/07/23/airpolution.php   (722 words)

  
 US Air Quality Gradebook - New York Air Pollution Sources
Under the issue Air Quality, we present EPA data as maps and gradesheets that grade US counties A to F for 21 EPA measures of air quality.
The topics of air pollution and environmental health are serious issues in the US, and result in pollution health effects including headache, respiratory impairment, neurological impairment, mental impairment, asthma, lung disease, chronic fatigue, immune system dysfunction, premature aging, and reduced longevity.
The US Air Quality Gradebook (“AirGrades”) grades both emissions and ambient concentrations on maps and gradesheets, and assigns resultant composite scores to US counties.
creativemethods.com /airquality/sources/new_york   (343 words)

  
 blogrunner: The New York Times - Air Forces Virtual Weblog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In fact, the Air Force's draft guidelines do not stop service members from praying on their own or voluntarily choosing to pray, but instead target officially sanctioned public prayer at many official events because of the appearance that either the Air Force or a person in command has endorsed a religion.
Any educated Air Force officer who offered that up as an excuse for their actions is either lying through their teeth or is a dolt of incredible proportions.
The new directive follows a report in June on the problems at the Academy, by a team of Air Force officers, that found numerous instances of evangelical Christians, both cadets and officers, trying to force their faith on non-believers and on people of other faiths, including Jews.
ltf121.chi.us.siteprotect.com /snapshot/D/1/3/386D97E000119413   (2680 words)

  
 Air Abrasion New York, Air Abrasion in New York, Air Abrasion New York, Air Abrasion Procedures New York
Air Abrasion New York, Air Abrasion in New York, Air Abrasion New York, Air Abrasion Procedures New York
Air abrasion is a gentle spray of an air-and powder mix that removes tooth decay.
Since air abrasion is achieved by directing a thin stream of abrasive powder at the area of the tooth decay, your dentist removes only minimal sections of the tooth - only the decayed area.
www.drraskin.com /air_abrasion.html   (370 words)

  
 CNN.com - Senate panel probes New York air quality - February 11, 2002
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Five months to the day after the World Trade Center was destroyed, two U.S. senators said Monday the environmental response to the attack was not well coordinated and more work is needed to determine whether there are lingering air quality problems.
The Fire Department of New York has said that 25 percent of its firefighters suffer from respiratory ailments.
Officials have said there is nothing in the air to present long-term health risks, but the Environmental Protection Agency continues to test the air quality.
archives.cnn.com /2002/US/02/11/rec.wtc.airquality   (427 words)

  
 New York Air National Guard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
New York Air National Guard airbases stretch from eastern Long Island to the Niagara Frontier.
Federal Mission: As part of the total Air Force, the NYANG provides operationally-ready combat and combat support units and qualified personnel for active duty in the Air Force to fulfill Air Force war and contingency commitments.
NYANG units are assigned to Air Force major commands during peacetime to accomplish this mission.
www.dmna.state.ny.us /nyang.htm   (253 words)

  
 New York State Air Pollution Control Requirement Changes for Automotive Refinishing in 2005
Autobody shops in New York State (NYS) number in the thousands and are required to meet certain air emission control requirements.
Additionally, all auto body shops, except for small operations located in Upstate New York, are required to obtain a registration with NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
All of the city of New York, and Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and Rockland Counties.
www.ccar-greenlink.org /ny_part_228.htm   (828 words)

  
 Wednesday
Air America and Multicultural Radio Broadcasting, the company that owns the Chicago and Los Angeles stations where Air America had been transmitting until last week, were apparently unable to work out their differences after a week of heated squabbling.
Air America sharply denied the claims and said that in fact Multicultural had charged Air America for time it later sold to other stations, but last Wednesday Multicultural employees kicked Air America people out of their stations in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Air America got a restraining order through a court in New York that restored the network’s signal in Chicago, and threatened to take further legal action to do the same in Los Angeles.
www.medialifemagazine.com /news2004/apr04/apr19/3_wed/news3wednesday.html   (520 words)

  
 Air Monitoring in Lower Manhattan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This effort augmented ambient air asbestos sampling performed by the EPA and other state and city agencies.
Although the ambient outdoor air was monitored, DEP used the indoor air standard as a way to characterize the levels of asbestos in the air.
Between September 28, 2001 and August 3, 2002, the vast majority of air sampling results outside the security zone were below the standards for asbestos in indoor air.
www.nyc.gov /html/dep/html/airmonit.html   (539 words)

  
 Air Conditioning - New York City, New York
New York City - Air Conditioning Contractors - Brooklyn
New York City - Air Conditioning Contractors - Queens
New York City - Air Conditioning Contractors - Staten Island
www.thecityofnewyorkcity.com /airconditioning/index.html   (672 words)

  
 PBS to air 'New York' series finale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Introduced in a harsh new world of fear and full alert, the film brings perspective to why people everywhere have long understood, even without knowing they know, that the human experience is bound up in New York's destiny.
Airing Sunday, The City of Tomorrow covers 1929 to 1945, years dominated by two New York giants: the beloved, whirlwind Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and urban uber-builder Robert Moses, who, with his highways, parks, bridges and public housing, was both masterful and maniacal in his campaign to create a bold new city.
An essaylike coda to the series, maybe airing next September, it would perform the opposite function of the series, which was consumed with a city's magnificent presence.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/2001-09-28-pbs-series.htm   (846 words)

  
 EPA: Clean Air Interstate Rule - New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Because air emissions travel across state boundaries, reducing the emissions from sources in New York also will reduce fine particle pollution and ground-level ozone pollution in other areas of the country.
At the end of 2004, 10 New York counties were designated nontattainment for EPA’s health-based standards for fine particle pollution (PM).
At the end of 2004, 30 New York counties were designated nontattainment for EPA’s health-based standards for 8-hour ozone pollution.
www.epa.gov /CAIR/state/ny.html   (796 words)

  
 The New York Times > New York Region > After Mapping the Human Genome, Analyzing the City's Air   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The new process is intended to provide as intimate a picture of the air as the genome mapping provided of the human body.
"Air is a natural part of the environment that we've ignored," Dr. Venter said from San Diego, where he was preparing to head to Australia to catch up with his yacht, the Sorcerer II.
Venter said he had the permission of the owner of a Midtown office building to take air samples from the roof and from inside the building's central air circulation system, on the condition that the building not be identified.
www.nytimes.com /2005/03/07/nyregion/07air.html?ex=1267938000&en=71c39796986ee6c5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt   (990 words)

  
 New York Air Brake Corporation - News
New York Air Brake Corporation supplies innovative air brake and train control systems to the heavy haul AAR railroad industry worldwide.
Watertown, NY—New York Air Brake Corporation (NYAB) is pleased to announce the opening of its new service center in Riverside, Missouri.
NYAB's new service center will have the capacity and capability to recondition or replace a complete range of locomotive and freight car air brake components.
www.nyab.com /nyabnews.htm   (497 words)

  
 NEW YORK CIVIL AIR PATROL OFFICERS
Two of the Civil Air Patrol's New York Wing officers helped to bring history to life this month by reenacting the Berlin Airlift in a World War II-era DC-4 plane and dropping hundreds of mini-parachutes loaded with candy over a school just outside Syracuse, NY.
Among those watching the 650 handkerchief-size parachutes shoot out of the plane and float down to the school's athletic field and tennis courts were retired Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen and children's author Margot Theis Raven.
Raven's new book, Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot, chronicles how Halvorsen grabbed the hearts of both the American and German peoples when he found a way to rain chocolate, gum and other candies on the children of Berlin during the 1948-49 airlift to save 2.2-million Berliners from Soviet Premier Josef Stalin's blockade.
glr.cap.gov /new_york_CAP.htm   (635 words)

  
 States Opposing Plan to Shutter Air Guard Bases - New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Air Force wants to retire aging aircraft from many Guard units, close or consolidate some of their bases and give some units new missions, like flying remotely piloted Predator aircraft, that are better suited to today's national security environment, Air Force officials say.
Senior military officials, lawmakers and civilian military experts say the Air Force has fumbled the politics in an obviously politically charged issue by not collaborating more closely with one of the most politically connected organizations in the country, the Air National Guard.
Air National Guard units are responsible for flying air patrol missions over the United States, but also have 3,110 personnel stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in Southwest Asia.
www.nytimes.com /2005/08/11/politics/11bases.html?ex=1281412800&en=d07f69f618b2a3c7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (758 words)

  
 Something in the air (NEW YORK, THE FALLOUT CONTINUES)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
New Yorkers may now live in dread of bio-terrorism, but potentially harmful substances already hang in the air over their city - the smoke and dust created by the World Trade Center collapse.
So-called "spikes" are occurring in the air quality readings being taken by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which exceed the legal level for asbestos content (0.01 fibres per cubic centimetre of air).
My aunt in New York told me that they are going to build 4 towers on the spot where the WTC was, and not quite so high.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/549060/posts   (1973 words)

  
 Division of Air Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Onboard Diagnostics new emission inspection requirements take effect in September 2004 for many vehicles in upstate NY Corrected DAR-1 AGC/SGC Tables (12/22/03), Guideline concentrations for toxic ambient air contaminants.
Air Quality Analysis and Research: research on air pollutants in the atmosphere through modeling and data analysis; air toxics assessments.
Air Quality Surveillance: statewide monitoring networks for gaseous pollutants, fine particulate matter, toxic organics, and acid rain; air pollution microscopy; web development and coordination.
www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dar   (444 words)

  
 Med Flight Air Ambulance Companies Air Ambulance Service Med Flight Air Ambulance Companies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Providing Air Ambulance service since 1990, air ambulance customers have trusted Air Ambulance Charters, inc. to safely bring their loved ones home with state-of-the-art medical air transportation.
Air Ambulance Transport Charters operates a fleet of Gulfstream, Learjet, King Air turboprops, and Cessna twin engine aircraft.
Patients and their family members may prefer using an air ambulance for the comfort and worry-free bedside-to-bedside service that we offer rather than using a commercial airline that do not accept patients on domestic flights for critical transport planes.
www.airambulancecharters.com /newyorkairambulance6.html   (400 words)

  
 American Lung Association of Northeastern New York - Air Quality   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The quality of the air we breathe, both indoors and outdoors, has a great impact on lung health.
Fragile lung tissue is easily damaged by pollutants in the air, resulting in increased risk of asthma and allergies, chronic bronchitis, lung cancer and other respiratory diseases.
ALA of Northeastern New York has made great strides in cleaning up the air.
www.alaneny.org /air.htm   (438 words)

  
 New York Airmen provide medical equipment for refugees
Airmen from New York's Stratton Air National Guard Base helped prepare equipment taken from the closed base hospital for transport by sea to Nicaragua.
Stratton, home of the famous 109th Airlift Wing whose ski-equipped LC-130s land at the North and South poles, was the closest base available with the required equipment and skills to complete the task.
The New York base closed in 1995 in a nationwide round of base closures.
www.af.mil /news/story.asp?storyID=123009092   (590 words)

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