Encourage your employer to become a Spare the Air Employer Partner to educate and encourage employees on pollution prevention activities. On smoggy days, postpone yard care with gasoline-powered equipment, or better yet, use electric or manual tools. For clean fun in the sun, try sailing, swimming, hiking or cycling but remember to consider air quality and your health when planning outdoor activities.

In addition to measures to reduce air emissions from industry, the Government will deal with emissions from transportation, ensure a number of energy-using products use that energy more efficiently, and for the first time, the Government will take action to improve indoor air quality.

All Canadians need to get involved in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases that cause climate change, as well as air pollution. Making use of the Government's public transit tax credit and increasing your use of public transit to help reduce traffic congestion and air pollution in our cities, and greenhouse gas emissions that impact on our climate. Consulting the ecoENERGY for Personal Vehicles program to help you choose more eco-friendly vehicles.

Hoosac will have no effect on air pollution in the Berkshires. It will not replace the output of any fossil-fuel power plant in the Berkshires. Airborne pollutants from coal-fired plants in the Midwest will continue to fall on the Berkshires. The St. Lawrence cement factory, proposed in New York 16 miles west of the Berkshire County border, will burn 500,000,000 pounds of coal a year, with pollutants expected to spread over the Berkshires as they travel eastward on air currents.

No building is perfectly sealed and so the air inside ultimately originates outside. Air pollution present in the outdoor environment will therefore enter into the building as well. Generally, pollutants present in the outdoor environment are present at a somewhat lower concentration than outside (probably 10 to 90% in most cases). There are several reasons for this. Some pollutants are absorbed by materials in the building. Others deteriorate or react chemically and so disappear.

The air quality in the San Joaquin Valley is among the poorest in the state. On average the Valley experiences 35-40 days when we exceed the federal health-based standards for ground-level ozone and more than 100 days over the state ozone standard. While levels of airborne particles exceed the federal standard less than five times annually, because the California standard is set at a lower and more protective level, the Valley exceeds this limit an average of 90-100 days per year.

Ozone precursor emission sources are generally divided into two categories: stationary and mobile. Stationary sources fall into two types called point and area sources. Point sources are large, easily identifiable sources such as industrial facilities and operations. Area sources are sources that individually emit smaller amounts of pollutants.

You can choose cleaner and more efficient energy sources for home heating and cooling, transportation, and appliances. Carpooling, recycling and maintaining clean and efficient automobiles can make a big difference. For more ideas on what you can do, click on the What Can You do? button.

Fusion energy is generated through nuclear reactions, which do not involve any kind of combustion. Therefore no greenhouse gases are generated as a result of these reactions. The fact that no such gas is emitted into the atmosphere means that fusion doesn’t contribute to any of the current environmental plagues, such as acid rain, global warming and air pollution.

The greatest source of hydrocarbons, one of the precursors to ozone pollution, is the automobile. We can limit these emissions by cutting down on individual driving. We can carpool, van pool, bike, walk or take public transportation. Maine maintains an Ambient State wide M Monitoring Network for ozone violations of the National Standards for ozone have to be documented at various locations throughout the state.

The Air Act treats noise pollution as a form of air pollution. Section 2 of the Air Act defines air pollutant to include ?any solid, liquid or gaseous substance (including noise) present in the atmosphere in such concentration as may be or tend to be injurious to human beings or other living creatures or plants or property or environment?.

Children are more susceptible to air pollutants because their lungs are still developing and their airways are narrower than those of adults. In addition, children often play outdoors during the day and may be more exposed. Children raised in heavily polluted areas have reduced lung capacity, prematurely aged lungs, and increased risk of bronchitis and asthma compared to peers living in less urbanized areas.

Currently, laboratory accreditation for air pollution analyses is not offered by the Illinois EPA. If you would like to request that the IL ELAP add an air pollution field of testing to the IL ELAP please contact the LAU Manager at (217) 782-6455.