Burning Issues is a project of Clean Air Revival, Inc., a 501C-3 non profit educational organization. Clean Air Revival, Inc. is registered with the Registry of Charitable Trusts in the State of California. Our organization number is #1686895.
Burning Issues depends on your donations and grants. 100% of funds further research, office operating expense and education. All labor and our building are donated. There are no paid employees. Please consider donating generously. Your donation helps spread life saving science. Our award winning website: http://burningissues.org is visited by 1,800 people daily from all over the world.
Burning Issues has an international membership and was founded by Mary J. Rozenberg, at the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club Clean Air Committee in 1987. It is devoted to the improvement of ambient air quality through the reduction of Particulate Pollution, i. e., solid particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter.
The most common sources of Particulate Pollution are residential wood burning (RWB) and coal burning, forest and agriculture burning, and diesel and auto exhaust. The extent of the severity of the fine particulate problem can be grasped in the estimate that 60,000 people die annually in the United States from the effects of these particles. Once emmitted they are impossible to clean up. More than half of the fine particulate is caused by fewer than 10% of the population using the dirtiest fuels for recreation and heating.
The principal activity of Burning Issues is the collection and dissemination of the latest science information regarding health effects, economic impacts, and individual actions to reduce and stop solid fuel combustion. Burning Issues also actively does particulate monitoring and has published the results.
Here is a list of the institutions and organizations, throughout the years, that we have been asked to provide scientific information and assistance about wood smoke emissions:
1) United States Environmental Protection Agency
2) New York State's Attorney General Office
3) California Air Resources Board
4) California: Bay Area Air Quality Management District
5) Placerville Air Quality Management District
6) South Coast Air Quality Management District
7) Many other California Air Districts*
8) American Association of Aerosol Research
9) Stanford University (Civil Engineering and Statistics)
10) University of California
International Groups/Organizations/Governments
1) Environment Canada (Canadian EPA)
2) Belgium: Department of Environment
3) Saltzburg, Austria, Health Department
4) Australian Armidale Air Quality, University of New England
5) Sweden: Clean Air Now
6) England: Coal Smoke Kills
7) England: Natural Gas Association
8) Canada: Association for Pure Air (ALAP) French and English
Additionally, the Clean Air Revival has been published in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Jose Mercury News, The Globe and Mail (Canada), and many other local newspapers throughout the country.
November 2001 Board of Directors of Clean Air Revival
- Mary Rozenberg, President, PO Box 1045, Point Arena, CA 95468,
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Photo of Mary holding a nephelometer, the
instrument for reading particulate levels.
- Tom Dickerman, Civil Engineer, Treasurer, 50 San Miguel Ave., Daly City, CA 94015,
- Louis Lowery, Macon, GA
- Dr. Wayne Ott, Stanford University, Dept. of Statistics, Palo Alto, CA
- Curt Freedman, Mechanical Engineer, Longmeadow, MA
Photo of Mary