Masri quoted on Air Quality Index

In a January 16th article on Yahoo Life, AirUCI Research Specialist Shahir Masri is asked about the AQI, a tool used by the Environmental Protection Agency in order to communicate outdoor air quality.  Shahir says that the AQI is a helpful but imprecise tool which, for example, can’t tell us about very localized air pollution as it measures regions small to large depending on the placement of toxin monitors. “Similarly, the AQI considers average air quality over specified time windows,” he says.  Read the article