(excerpted from The Buffalo News)
If you live within the 14150, 14217, and 14150 ZIP codes, the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York could use your help. Click the The Buffalo News link for full details!
Volunteers are needed to wear clip-on air-monitoring badges for a study of air quality in the Town of Tonawanda.
A total of 25 volunteers will wear the badges for 24 hours on June 29, when exposure to benzene will be measured.
An investigation of the link between the combined effects of all air pollutants and community health is being conducted by the coalition, the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the University at Buffalo. Elevated levels of benzene, an organic chemical compound that is a known carcinogen, already have been detected by the DEC.

Volunteers are required to attend a brief instructional meeting before participating. Contact Jackie James, the coalition’s executive director, by Wednesday at 873-5608 or jackie {at} cacwny(.)org