The Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities at Bard College (CESH) is pleased to announce the release of the third annual Kingston Community Air Quality report, released by the Kingston Air Quality Initiative (KAQI) after six consecutive years of research and data collection. The report shows a slight increase in annual air pollution (as measured by particulate matter (PM2.5)) in 2025, and clear differences in street-level exposures to air quality based on location within the city. 

KAQI began in January 2020 as a partnership between Bard’s Community Sciences Lab and the City of Kingston Conservation Advisory Council’s Air Quality Subcommittee. Since then, Kingston residents and Bard College students, staff, and faculty have facilitated both indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring projects throughout the Hudson Valley. The first air quality study of its kind in Kingston, KAQI’s monitoring efforts focus on a regional assessment of air pollution as measured from the rooftop of the Andy Murphy Neighborhood Center on Broadway in Kingston.

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