Big Picture – Air Quality Resources & Context

AirNow

Provides the Air Quality Index or AQI that tells how clean or polluted your outdoor air is and associated health effects. The AQI converts air pollution data from regulatory monitors into numbers and colors to help the public understand when to take action to protect health

• https://airnow.gov/

Overview of EPA’s Air Research Program

Provides information about air research at EPA including work on sensors

• https://www.epa.gov/air-research

National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)

Provides information about EPA’s NAAQS program for criteria air pollutants

• https://www.epa.gov/naaqs

National Air Quality Trends

Provides information about status and trends of key air pollutants

• https://www.epa.gov/air-trends

Daily Air Quality Tracker

Provides access to outdoor air quality data collected from state, local and tribal monitoring agencies across the United States

• https://www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data

Indoor Air Quality

Information on indoor air pollution, causes, health effects, and environmental justice

• https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/introduction-indoor-air-quality

Learn About Air

Contains guides for teachers, history lessons, pollutant activities, monitoring and measurement activities, and information about air quality around the world

• http://www.learnaboutair.com/primary_home.html