Satellite Observations of Atmospheric Ammonia Inequalities Associated with Industrialized Swine Facilities in Eastern North Carolina.

ABSTRACT: Industrialized swine facilities adversely affect the health and well-being of Eastern North Carolina residents in the U.S. and are an issue of environmental racism. Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) emit various harmful and noxious air pollutants, including ammonia (NH₃). There are limited measurements of CAFO-related air quality, contributing to disputes around its severity. We use NH₃ vertical column densities from the space-based Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) to report systematic, distributive inequalities in NH₃ column enhancements (ΔNH₃ columns), equal to NH₃ columns less an observationally determined tropospheric background. Population-weighted block group-scale ΔNH₃ columns are highe

SUBMITTER: Epps A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11823455 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature