{"id":47262,"date":"2020-05-08T16:30:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?post_type=r_cas_research&#038;p=47262"},"modified":"2020-05-08T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:31:31","slug":"less-commuting-less-pollution","status":"publish","type":"r_cas_research","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/research\/less-commuting-less-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Less Commuting, Less Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With most Bostonians working from home, the roads during rush hour have become a ghost town. So what does that mean for the environment, and specifically the air pollution, in the city?<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor of Earth and Environment\u00a0Lucy Hutyra and her colleague Assistant Professor Jeff Geddes spoke to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2020\/no-its-not-your-imagination-the-air-in-boston-is-cleaner\/\">The Brink<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>about what these current changes mean in the short and long term.<\/p>\n<p><span>Photo by\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@michaelwb?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Michael Browning<\/a><span>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth and Environment professors discuss what less commuting during the pandemic means for Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47263,"template":"","department":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discovery\/47262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discovery"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/r_cas_research"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"r_cas_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=47262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}