Air Quality Articles
Breathing Abroad: How Travelers Can Prepare for Different Air-Quality Conditions
Travelers can reduce exposure to unfamiliar air-quality hazards by checking local conditions, preparing for smoke, dust, ozone, and allergens, and adjusting activities as conditions change.
Cooling the Country: How Air Conditioning Influences Air Quality
Air conditioning can protect people from heat and outdoor pollution, but its electricity demand, waste heat, and refrigerant emissions can also influence air quality and climate locally and globally.
Summer Air: How to Protect Yourself When Air Quality Turns Unhealthy
Checking the AQI, adjusting outdoor activity, filtering indoor air, and preparing for wildfire smoke and extreme heat can help reduce exposure to unhealthy summer air.
Working for Cleaner Air: How to Build a Career in Air Quality
Careers in air quality range from environmental science and industrial hygiene to engineering, atmospheric research, and field instrumentation, offering multiple educational paths into a growing environmental field.
The Habits in the Air: How Social Norms Influence Air Quality
Everyday American habits—from driving and lawn care to fireplaces, cooking, and scented products—can quietly shape both indoor and neighborhood air quality.
Power From Moving Air: How Wind Turbines Influence Air Quality
Wind turbines produce almost no direct air pollution while generating electricity, with their greatest air-quality benefit coming from reducing the need for combustion-based power generation.
Game Day Air: How Sporting Events Can Create Local Air-Quality Problems
Sporting events can create short-term air-quality problems from cooking smoke, traffic, pyrotechnics, dense crowds, and stadium designs that sometimes slow the dispersion of pollutants.
After the Flames: How a Fire-Damaged Home Is Remediated
Post-fire remediation requires professionals to stabilize the structure, remove water and soot, control odors and airborne contamination, restore damaged belongings, and verify that the home is safe to occupy.
From Rock to Sky: How Geological Processes Shape Atmospheric Chemistry
The atmosphere is often described as a mixture of gases produced by living organisms, human activity, and weather. However, the solid Earth also plays an important role in determining what the air contains. Volcanoes release gases from deep underground. Wind carries...
Air Quality Headlines
Direct Relief Monitoring Severe Spokane Wildfires Amid Mass Evacuations
Direct Relief | 3 August 2026 | Direct Relief is coordinating with healthcare partners to support communities affected by the Spokane-area wildfires as ongoing fires, smoke, and poor air quality continue to disrupt healthcare services and threaten public health.
A Novel Method For Analysis Of Oxidant (OX = O3 + NO2) And Its Local And Regional Contributions Using Satellite Remote Sensing Data
Nature | 3 August 2026 | A new study demonstrates that satellite observations can accurately estimate urban oxidant pollution and distinguish local from regional sources, offering a powerful new tool for improving air quality management.
NJBIA’s Siekerka Presents National Manufacturing Leadership Award
NJBIA | 2 August 2026 | The Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry has received a national manufacturing leadership award for helping secure EPA regulatory relief by addressing the impact of transported air pollution on the Phoenix-Mesa region.
Hospitals Can Save The Environment And Your Health — Or At Least Not Make Them Worse
Petrie-Flom Center | 2 August 2026 | A new analysis argues that hospitals should take a leading role in reducing their carbon emissions, emphasizing that cutting healthcare-related pollution is both achievable and essential to protecting public health.
Griffith Lake Dam Spillway Improvement Project
DNREC - Delaware.gov | 1 August 2026 | Delaware will begin a major reconstruction of Griffith Lake Dam in August to improve safety and reduce dam failure risk, with construction expected to continue through late 2027.
Sonoma County Updates Health Advisory Due To Poor Air Quality Caused By The Woodside Fire
Sonoma County | 1 August 2026 | Sonoma County has issued a health advisory as wildfire smoke pushes air quality into very unhealthy and hazardous levels, urging residents to stay indoors and take precautions to reduce smoke exposure.
The Border Can’t Block Air Pollution—But Environmental Diplomacy Can
The Philadelphia Inquirer | 31 July 2026 | The history of U.S.-Canada cooperation to reduce air pollution across the border.
Public Responses About Air Quality In The World’s Ten Most Populous Countries
Nature | 31 July 2026 | A global study finds that people exposed to higher levels of air pollution are generally more concerned and proactive about air quality, despite often having less knowledge about pollution and its health impacts.
Klobuchar Joins Colleagues In Introducing Legislation To Create And Expand Grant And Loan Programs To Monitor Air Pollution From Wildfires
Senator Amy Klobuchar - Senate.gov | 30 July 2026 | A bipartisan Senate bill would expand access to portable air quality sensors, helping communities better monitor wildfire smoke and protect public health during increasingly frequent smoke events.
Statement: EPA’s Proposed Changes Would Weaken Life-Saving Air Pollution Standards For Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Environmental Defense Fund | 30 July 2026 | Environmental advocates are urging the EPA to preserve existing heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, warning that proposed rollbacks could increase air pollution and undermine billions of dollars in projected public...
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