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Researchers look into a future life indoors

PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers will evaluate a dozen local homes as part of a national study on climate change’s effects on future indoor air quality.

Ag, burning, cold nights add up to poor air quality

By Tina Hilding, College of Engineering & Architecture YAKIMA, Wash. – A new Washington State University study has found that a combination of agricultural emissions, human-based activity – like running car engines and burning woodstoves – and cold, still winter nights adds up to poorer air quality in the Yakima Valley than in much of […]

Associate professor will discuss energy and air quality

PULLMAN – The Mechanical and Materials Symposium Series will feature Liv Haselbach, associate professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at WSU, on Thursday, Sept. 3 from 11:10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Haselbach will speak in the Engineering Teaching and Research Lab Building, Room 101, on the topic of heating, ventilating and air conditioning […]

WSU receives $900,000 grant

(Photo: Fire crews attempt to contain wild fire in Oregon that began as a controlled slash burning fire. Photo by Istockphoto) PULLMAN — A group of researchers in the Laboratory for Atmospheric Research have received an EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grant to look at the impacts of global climate change on regional air quality […]

NASA grant will provide better picture of Northwest air quality

PULLMAN–Researchers in the Laboratory for Atmospheric Research have received a three-year NASA grant to gather data from satellites and use it to check and improve air quality forecasting in the Northwest. During the last several years, NASA has launched a total of three Earth Observing System satellites that collect data worldwide. The agency has encouraged […]