Raising the flag for air quality
By Roberta Burnes Division for Air Quality There’s a new flag in the halls of Clark Elementary School. It’s a brightly-colored flag that students in Debbie Stewart’s [...]
Air Quality
Asbestos detectives: Preparing the Capital Plaza Tower for safe demolition
By Roberta Burnes Division for Air Quality Frankfort residents are already staking out the best viewing sites. Because on March 11 the Capital Plaza Tower, Frankfort’s [...]
Braving the weather for air data
By Roberta Burnes Division for Air Quality The Kentucky Division for Air Quality (DAQ) operates a network of monitoring stations across the state, each with its own set of [...]
The Division for Air Quality shares best practices with Mongolian visitors on cross-cultural tour
By Roberta Burnes Division for Air Quality The Kentucky Division for Air Quality (DAQ) was delighted to host some international visitors recently – all the way from [...]
Students Design Air Quality Solutions
By the Division for Air Quality When Division for Air Quality educator Roberta Burnes works with students, she often starts with a single question: How do we know if the air [...]
Air Quality inspectors follow their noses to cleaner air in Boyd County
By Roberta Burnes The Division for Air Quality Boyd County residents are breathing easier these days, thanks in part to the work of odor-sniffing inspectors from the Division [...]
Fighting Kentucky’s wildfires: A great coordinated effort
By Lanny Brannock and Carrie Searcy The smell is what you notice first. It smells like a crackling fireplace or a bonfire, but then you see the blanket of blue smoke wafting [...]
Burn wisely this winter
By Roberta Burnes The Division for Air Quality Not long ago, I was visiting an elementary school, talking to students about air quality. I often carry a jar of air with me [...]
Teaching about air quality with electric cars
By the Division for Air Quality Staff How do you teach about something you can’t see or touch? Air quality educator Roberta Burnes tackles that challenge with physical [...]
Greener lawn care for cleaner air
By Roberta Burnes Division for Air Quality Photos courtesy of Shutterstock Every year, Americans burn more than 800 million gallons of gasoline mowing their lawns. [...]
