Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An air quality index (AQI) is an indicator developed by government agencies [1] to communicate to the public how polluted the air currently is or how polluted it is forecast to become. [2][3] As air pollution levels rise, so does the AQI, along with the associated public health risk. Children, the elderly and individuals with respiratory or ...
Regulation of air pollution is a shared responsibility between federal, state, and local governments. Since 1999, the EPA has used the air quality index (AQI) to communicate air pollution risk to the public, on a scale from 0 to 500, with six levels from Good to Hazardous. [10]
PM 2.5 AQI of US monitors, calculated utilizing NowCast, courtesy US EPA PM2.5 AQI map, calculated utilizing NowCast, courtesy US EPA. The PM NowCast is a weighted average of hourly air monitoring data used by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for real-time reporting of the Air Quality Index (AQI) for PM (PM 10 or PM 2.5).
The AQI uses a scale that typically ranges from zero to 500 to denote air quality. If your area has an AQI of 50 or below, you're in a green zone. You should have good air quality and little or no ...
With smoke from Canadian wildfires triggering air quality alerts in more than a dozen U.S. states, millions of Americans have suddenly become intimately familiar with the Air Quality Index, or AQI ...
The 2018 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 2700 towns and cities in 91 countries. Air quality in the database is represented by the annual mean concentration of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5, i.e. particles smaller than 10 or 2.5 micrometers, respectively). [1] [2] [3]
Contents. National Ambient Air Quality Standards. The U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS, pronounced / ˈnæks / naks) are limits on atmospheric concentration of six pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards. [ 1 ] Established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under authority of the ...
The Clean Air Act of 1963 (CAA) was passed as an extension of the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955, encouraging the federal government via the United States Public Health Service under the then-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to encourage research and development towards reducing pollution and working with states to establish their own emission reduction programs.