Bulldozer operations at a coal facility at the Port of Baltimore are directly connected to increased air pollution in the nearby Curtis Bay neighborhood, according to a Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health study.
According to the study, levels of air pollutants, including particulate matter and black carbon, were highest when there was both bulldozer activity and wind blowing from the coal terminal.
Researchers monitored air quality for a full year, from July 2022 to July 2023, using 10 monitoring sites around Curtis Bay and a camera that tracked bulldozer activity at CSX Corporation’s Curtis Bay Piers terminal…