Environmental Justice
COCO believes in democratizing technology from solar to geo-spatial for the region’s most vulnerable communities.
Air Alliance Houston
Air Tracker
AirNow
ATSDR
Bayou City WaterKeeper
CDC
City of Houston 311
Cleanups
IQAir
Kinder Institute for Urban Research
National Food Insurance Program
OpenMap
PurpleAir
Resilient Houston
TX Commission on Env. Quality
World's Air Pollution
Health Hazard-based Air Quality Index (HAQ-I)
HAQ-I is an environmental tool that goes beyond traditional air quality indices (like AQI) by providing a more comprehensive assessment of the health risks associated with exposure to multiple air pollutants.
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AirNow
AirNow is your one-stop source for air quality data. The website and mobile app highlights air quality in your local area first, while still providing air quality information at state and national views. AirNow’s interactive map even allows the site visitor to zoom out to get the big picture or drill down to see data for a single air quality monitor. AirNow’s Fire and Smoke map, a collaborative project with the US Forest Service, uses a variety of products including low-cost sensors to provide detailed, up-to-date information that can be critical to users experiencing smoke events.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
The Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT) - The Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool gives everyone access to powerful data and GIS mapping that can help everyone understand their community.
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Air Alliance Houston
The Greater Houston and Harris County area is made up of many diverse and vibrant communities, but they also face myriad challenges to their health due to poor air quality and environmental injustice. We created Campaigns with these challenges in mind to learn more about and address the disproportionate and cumulative impacts on Houston communities of color and with low wealth. Read more about how we are working toward clean air every day for everyone.
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Clarity OpenMap
At Clarity, we leverage our expertise in air sensing technology, IoT devices, and data analytics to revolutionize the way we understand and respond to air pollution. Founded in 2014, we have now deployed our next-generation, highly-accurate indicative air quality monitoring networks in more than 70 countries around the world — empowering our customers to build healthier communities with better data..
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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
When communities are exposed to natural and manmade hazardous substances, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is ready to respond. Our top priority is to determine public health effects of environmental exposures and to protect people from these exposures..
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Air Tracker
Air Tracker is a web-based tool developed by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in partnership with the University of Utah and the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. It helps users visualize the likely path of air pollution by using scientific models, real-time air quality and weather data. Air Tracker allows users to identify potential pollution sources at a local level and understand how pollutants move through the atmosphere.
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Purple Air
PurpleAir makes sensors that empower communities who collect hyper-local, real-time, air quality data and share it with the public.
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World Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index
The "World Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index" (AQI) is a system that provides information about the levels of air pollution in various locations worldwide. It uses a color-coded scale to indicate the severity of pollution and its potential health effects. The system is based on measurements of pollutants like particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and carbon monoxide. .
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Geographical Texas Air Monitoring (GeoTAM)
GeoTAM is an interactive mapping application from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) that allows the public to view and interact with data from air quality monitoring sites across Texas. It provides a visual way to access information about air monitoring locations, measurements, and surrounding area.
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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is the environmental agency for the state. We have approximately 2,800 employees, located in our central office in Austin and 16 regional offices around Texas.
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IQAir
IQAir is changing that. We operate the world’s largest free real-time air quality monitoring platform—empowering individuals, researchers, and governments to monitor, understand and act to protect the health of populations around the globe.
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Houston State of Health
The Houston State of Health Data Portal (the Data Portal) was created after the executive committee that was governing the development of “State of Health in Houston/Harris County” decided to transition to an electronic format. The data portal was initiated as a collaborative project among five stakeholders that included the Houston Health Department, Harris County Public Health Department, Harris Health system, Houston Methodist Hospital system and Memorial Herman Hospital system.
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Community Lattice
Community Lattice’s mission is to educate, empower, and equip communities to achieve their economic, social, and environmental goals by successfully redeveloping underutilized and contaminated properties.
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Kinder Institute for Urban Research
The Kinder Institute Urban Data Platform is a secure data repository and an analytical computing environment that provides research-ready urban data for the Greater Houston Area. The UDP facilitates cross-disciplinary research and community studies to advance knowledge and information about Houston's people, government, and built environment.
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National Flood Insurance Program
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) provides insurance to help reduce the impact of floods for individuals and communities. The NFIP provides flood insurance to property owners, renters and businesses, and having this coverage helps them recover faster when floodwaters recede. NFIP flood insurance policies cover buildings, their contents or both.
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National Integrated Heat Health Information System
Heat.gov serves as the premier source of information regarding heat and health for the nation. This portal seeks to improve federal, state, and local information and capacity to reduce the health, economic, and infrastructural impacts of extreme heat.
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Bayou City Waterkeeper
Bayou City Waterkeeper protects the waters and people of the Houston region through bold legal action, community science, and creative, grassroots policy to further justice, health, and safety for our region.
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City of Houston 311
In August of 2001, the City of Houston launched its 311 Houston Service Helpline, a consolidated call center designed to make city government more user-friendly and responsive to city residents by providing citizens with a one telephone number to call for information on city services and to report non-emergency concerns. The main component of the 311 Houston Service Helpline is the three-digit phone number, accessible from within the Houston city limits. From traffic fines and sewer concerns to pothole problems and neighborhood complaints, Houstonians can call 311 and speak to one of our highly trained Agents. From outside the City of Houston, callers simply dial 713-837-0311. Agents are available 24/7 to answer your calls.
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Resilient Houston
Houstonians reach for the stars, work hard, innovate, look out for their neighbors, and when challenged by adversity are inherently resilient. But the challenges that Houstonians face are increasing in size, frequency, and complexity—compounded by exponential population growth, an uncertain and changing climate, economic reliance on the energy sector, and inequitable outcomes in health, wealth, and access to services depending on one’s neighborhood. Hurricane Harvey’s devastating impact on the region in 2017 was a stark reminder of our vulnerability and a call for transformative change. Houston’s future will not be a “tale of two cities”—of have and have-nots. Rather, we will work to ensure that all Houstonians can thrive in the face of challenges.
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Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (Environmental Public Health Tracking)
Looking at data in different resolutions can help us better understand the connections between health and the places where we live, work, and play. Resolution is the detail with which a map depicts the location and shape of geographic features, boundaries, and areas. The Tracking Network allows you to visualize data in many different resolutions. The program is working towards getting even more localized, finer resolution for health and environmental data.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) EnviroAtlas
Human health and well-being are closely tied to the environment, which provides benefits such as clean water, clean air, and protection from natural hazards, also known as ecosystem goods and services. EnviroAtlas provides geospatial data, easy-to-use tools, and other resources related to ecosystem services, their chemical and non-chemical stressors, and human health.
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Cleanups in My Community
Cleanups in My Community enables you to map and list hazardous waste cleanup locations and grant areas, and drill down to details about those cleanups and grants and other, related information. This page provides several ways to get started.
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