Air quality

News

• 'Ghosts' of storms past may haunt damaged homes
  Friday, April 20, 2012
  PERRYVILLE, Mo.—Homeowners who made repairs after last year’s floods and windstorms may now be finding ghostly shadows—dirty patches of mold and mildew—in parts of the home that got wet. This is a health hazard for people living in the home.
  
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• Keep the heat in your house, but keep out the radon
  Wednesday, January 25, 2012
  MARSHFIELD, Mo. –If you have made your home more energy efficient, or plan to do so, you might want to test for radon, says a University of Missouri Extension natural resource engineering specialist.
• New computer models to help concentrated animal producers tone down the smell
  Thursday, September 15, 2011
  COLUMBIA, Mo. – Some call it the smell of money, but Teng Teeh Lim thinks that smell does not have to be so bad.
  
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Websites

Browse these University of Missouri websites:

• AgEBB: Occupational Medicine
• Missouri Environmental Assistance Center
  A resource for pollution prevention and environmental compliance assistance for small businesses.
• Missouri Master Naturalist
  A community-based natural resource education and volunteer service program sponsored jointly by the Missouri Department of Conservation and MU Extension.

You may be interested in these external websites:

• eXtension Animal Manure Management Resources

Publications

• G1881, Generating Methane Gas From Manure
• G1884, Odors From Livestock Operations: Causes and Possible Cures
• G1885, Fugitive Dust: Nonpoint Sources

You may be interested in these related publications:

• G1155, Confined Feeding Facilities — Site Selection and Management
• G1880, Gases and Odors From Swine Wastes
• G1886, Controlling Drift of Crop Protection Materials
• G1968, Radon: An Indoor Health Hazard?
• NCR393, Fine Particle Pollution: Residential Air Quality