The State Department suspends the reporting on the level of air and family levels relied on abroad

The State Department staff was taken this week by the Department Directive by teaching embassies and consulate to stop publishing data on air quality monitoring.

The CBS news was reviewed by the message sent by staff 4. March, which says “currently does not exist for the date for real-time data that would be available.” Embassy staff and their families relied on reports to warn them Bad air quality Dani.

“I was a shocked announcement,” the current rammer, who asked him to remain anonymous about his job, and who said that the decision does not make much sense because the existing air quality monitoring infrastructure has already been operational. “I don’t see any purpose to turn off this information, there is no point,” said another department employee.

The State Department spokesman told the news of the CBS in a statement that air quality monitors are running, but the effort to transfer data on embassies and consulate no longer occurs “due to the limitations of funding to turn off the base network.” When asked what cost to manage the program, the State Department did not give the answer.

“The cost for maintaining these systems is trivial,” Rick Duke said, which served as a deputy climate, on the State Department by January and believes that it does not take up the integer of the anti-air conditioning Ideology in Trump administration. “These monitors are neither of the climate,” Duke said, “Why take away the health information from the Embassy and the Public?”

Air monitoring in US embassies began informally in 2008. years when one monitor is located in the embassy in Beijing, China. The results were published per hour on Twitter, informing the public about Air pollution level in the city. An account called Airbeijing became the internet – known in 2010. years when the Twitter was that air 11. November was “crazy bad” when the machine was registered a dangerously high level Air pollution.

The purpose behind the monitoring was to inform us with citizens about the state of the city air, but the Chinese public quickly picked up information and started to address their government with toxic pollution that local officials often diminished.

The State Department has expanded air monitoring in other embassies around the world, installing 78 monitors elsewhere, and the data is available Airnow.gov. A 2022 Scientific study The embassy program was revealed to be very successful in reducing air pollutants, “resulting in significant decreases in premature mortality, faces over 300 million people living in the cities to the American Embassy.”

But now that the program is interrupted, Embassy data website It only produces an error message. The The last available reading in Beijing was published 4. MartaThe day the agency stopped transferring data.

The current staff of the State Department said the news of the CBS is a key approach to foreign tasks, especially for those who must move their entire family, or in locations where the airports of local authorities are unreliable or non-existent.

“Rolbing employees in the information needed for their children’s health decisions are immoral,” the current rammer said, which he spoke about the state of anonymity out of fear of fear of commitment.

The State Department spokesman told the news of the CBS in a statement that the air is still collected and “will be available when there is a safe and reliable way to convey it.” They said the section “Evaluation of other transmission options” was.

The spokesperson also said that air quality monitoring equipment “is just one of the series of tools that the department uses to ensure the health and safety of our staff.”

When the CBS news was requested by staff on other tools, they said they were not aware of anyone and did not know how to access information differently.