LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The California Air Resources Board recently launched a first-of-its-kind program to gather hyper-local air pollution data that should help in the ongoing effort to improve air quality in the state.

Mobile air monitoring involves a sensor-equipped vehicle from Aclima which will be used in 64 communities across California to gather block-by-block air quality information.

The hope is that by gathering neighborhood specific data, more productive and cost-effective solutions can be found to protect public health.

"One of the first things you can see is really easy wins that are actually really available now and that we don't need to wait 10, 20 years," Aclima co-founder Davida Herzel said. "We can do these things now. I think that that's what will be really surpris

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