{"590974":{"#nid":"590974","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Dust From Brakes And Tires Can Impact Health, Ga. Tech Study Finds","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have found it\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2017\/03\/02\/brake-dust-may-cause-more-problems-blackened-wheel-covers\u0022\u003Enot just car emissions\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;sending people to emergency rooms in Atlanta, but all that dust coming off brakepads and tires....Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Earth \u0026amp; Atmospheric Sciences professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Rodney_Weber\u0022\u003ERodney Weber\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;said thanks to fewer diesel engines on the road and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, air quality has drastically improved in Atlanta in the last 15 years.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;But there\u0026#39;s still enough sulfate to make it really, really acidic,\u0026rdquo; Weber said. \u0026ldquo;It has a pH in Atlanta of probably around 0 to 2, which is like car battery acid.\u0026quot; \u003Cem\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acs.est.6b06151\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E was published in Environmental Science and Technology and included research\u0026nbsp;from EAS graduate students\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Ting_Fang\u0022\u003ETing Fang\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Hongyu_Guo\u0022\u003EHongyu Guo\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/content\/zeng-linghan\u0022\u003ELinghan Zeng\u003C\/a\u003E and EAS professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Athanasios_Nenes\u0022\u003EAthanasio Nenes\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-04-26 18:11:33","changed_gmt":"2017-04-26 18:23:52","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"gt values","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/news.wabe.org\/post\/dust-brakes-and-tires-can-impact-health-ga-tech-study-finds","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"590975":{"id":"590975","type":"image","title":"Rodney Weber","body":null,"created":"1493230463","gmt_created":"2017-04-26 18:14:23","changed":"1493230463","gmt_changed":"2017-04-26 18:14:23","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225173","name":"Rodney Weber .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Rodney%20Weber%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Rodney%20Weber%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":7257,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Rodney%20Weber%20.jpg?itok=O4gAY8iY"}}},"media_ids":["590975"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"171762","name":"Rodney Weber"},{"id":"174211","name":"car emissions"},{"id":"169750","name":"sulfate"},{"id":"12741","name":"acidic"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}