Emerson College
OP-2: Outdoor Air Quality

We follow Massachusetts and US EPA clean air policies. Emerson has committed to retaining the core of campus as a pedestrian campus accessible without the use of a personal vehicle. These policies are central to campus character & safety. One of the components of furthering this strategy is the promotion of the local public transit student T-pass program and the Hubway bicycle docking system throughout the city. Students are not provided with parking passes and are informed by Student Affairs and Orientation staff not to bring personal vehicles. Emerson has signed up to participate with the MBTA as part of a first-year experience pilot program to promote use of public transit over ride sharing applications like Uber and Lyft, Additionally, staff and faculty are offered pre-tax public transit passes to promote the use of transit. Facilities Management & Housing & Dining Services (the two largest operational departments on campus) have issued guidelines to prohibit idling of service vehicles. In addition, Emerson Police can ticket and enforce the Air Pollution Control Commission's (APCC) MGL Chapter 90, Section 16A for idling over five minutes. Section 16A. No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the unnecessary operation of the engine of a motor vehicle while said vehicle is stopped for a foreseeable period of time in excess of five minutes. This section shall not apply to (a) vehicles being serviced, provided that operation of the engine is essential to the proper repair thereof, or (b) vehicles engaged in the delivery or acceptance of goods, wares, or merchandise for which engine assisted power is necessary and substitute alternate means cannot be made available, or (c) vehicles engaged in an operation for which the engine power is necessary for an associate power need other than movement and substitute alternate power means cannot be made available provided that such operation does not cause or contribute to a condition of air pollution. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, nor more than five hundred dollars for each succeeding offense.

Sightlines, our benchmarking contractor, provides us with MMbtus of our Scope 1 natural gas consumption and associated CH4, CO2 and N2O emissions. I was able to calculate the additional emission sources using EPA's AP-42: Compilation of Air Emission Factors.

Not listed: 0.397 tons TOCs 0.198 tons VOCs 0.1367 CH4 No data for CO