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WATER PROTECTOR FOR LIFE, and beyond. Living on Lenni Lenape land. Mni Wiconi. treat all things as spirit. realize we are one family. my thoughts are my own.
Jun 17, 2023 7 tweets 11 min read
#AirQualityAlert 🧵🧵please be mindful of your exposure as well as your fury friends 🐾🐕exposure today. The PM2.5 is elevated in the region. The VOCs are also showing to be elevated, in fact quite concerning in some areas. @PSRPennsylvania @PAHealthDept @GovernorShapiro ImageImageImage In Westmoreland (around the MAX landfill area) @ThePurpleAir VOC sensors are showing some concerning numbers. @youghrvrkeeper Image
Jun 7, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
This is really bad. As a chemist, I'm very familiar with smells of chemicals, and I now smell what I would consider more than just wildfire smell. It smells like either fire, retardant, burnt, or the structures that are also being burnt my concern is dioxins in the air.

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.@EPA @PennsylvaniaDEP I hope that you are doing analyses that or quantitative and speciating what we are breathing in. It does not smell like burning wood or forest. There is definitely chemical smell. And now the VOC readings are rising - is it getting trapped in our space?