Group Against Smog & Pollution

CREATE Lab’s Yen-Chia Hsu trains volunteers to label smoke at GASP HQ. Congratulations are in order for Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab and project leader Yen-Chia Hsu on the successful launch of its smoke reading tool – one that can label industrial emissions. The project involved months of work – six setting up the infrastructure and 12 more working with volunteers to refine the system and label videos depicting industrial emissions in an effort to train an artifici

The Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) is teaming up with The CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University for an event—and we need your help! How? We are looking for folks to serve as volunteers to help label smoke emissions from a collection of air pollution monitoring videos. “Our goal is to train an artificial Intelligence system to detect industrial smoke pollution automatically. To do this, we need a vast amount of data, which will require a considerable human effort,”

Comments made to the Allegheny County Board of Health by Sue Seppi, September 13, 2017 Waking up in the morning or the middle of the night to “rotten egg odors” is not an uncommon event in Allegheny County, especially in or downwind of the Monongahela Valley. That smell very likely comes from hydrogen sulfide (H2S), whose odor is perceptible by most at a very low concentration. Of course, there are other disagreeable outdoor odors, but the H2S odor is so unpleasant and common

Spring 2016 is proving to be unlike any previous spring for residents of communities surrounding Neville Island. Since the DTE Energy Shenango Coke Plant ended production in January, air pollution from the battery no longer intrudes in their lives. Daily routines, as ordinary as opening windows to let in an evening breeze, are joyful events for many residents. Gretchen Anderson and her husband, Clint Hoover, moved to Avalon five years ago from Minneapolis. They were not aware