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Clean Air Program Director Christa Hasenkopf explains the health impacts of air pollution for the New York Times.

The U.S. has stopped publicly sharing air quality data collected at embassies around the world, leaving many countries without trusted pollution measurements.

Christa Hasenkopf, director of the Clean Air Program and founder of the EPIC Air Quality Fund, discusses funding for air quality with Nonprofit Quarterly.

“Air pollution is one of the world’s largest public health threats, And not only do we underfund it, we’re not directing the funds available to where they’re needed most," says EPIC Clean Air Program Director Christa Hasenkopf.

When it comes to funding air quality, philanthropy is very good at generating dashboards and less good at lasting policy change

The Malawi Uni­versity of Busi­ness and Applied Sci­ences (Mubas), through the Depart­ment of Phys­ics and Bio­chem­ical Sci­ences under the School of Sci­ence and Tech­no­logy, is imple­ment­ing an air qual­ity mon­it­or­ing study fin­anced by the Uni­versity of Chicago’s Epic Air Qual­ity...

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules.

By Christa Hasenkopf Air pollution quietly erases around 6% of global gross domestic product each year, far outweighing the annual growth expected from artificial intelligence, yet receives less than 0.1% of global philanthropy. Data is a common constraint on clean...

Science quotes UChicago's Robert Rosner in an article on the DOE's reorganization.

Targeted investment that enables communities to measure and share air quality data offers a major opportunity to improve global health, a new report said.