Air Quality in Virginia

Why the Blue Ridge is now lost in a gray haze -
industrial pollutants and particulates, blowing over the Atlantic Ocean
(Source: NASA)

Links

• Air Quality at Shenandoah National Park (contrast with "A Closer Look at Visibility" from the Virginia Climate Advisory
• Air Quality - Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Department of Environmental Programs
• American Lung Association
• Virginia - State of the Air
• Arlington Council for Sensible Transportation
• Clean the Air (Clean Air South)
• Virginia's Dirty Power Plants
• Danger In The Air: The 2001 Ozone Season Summary (US Public Interest Research Groups - USPIRG)
• Environmental Defense - Air Quality
• Tailpipe Tally
• Environmental Media Services - Air Pollution Health Impacts
• New Source Review
• Ozone and the Air Quality Index (AQI)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Air Now
• Ozone Mapping - Northeast
• Virginia Air Quality
• Air Quality Planning and Standards
• Atmospheric Modeling
• Clean Air Markets
• Clear Skies Initiative (see also the Clear Skies Initiative - White House site)
• Green Book - Nonattainment Areas for Criteria Pollutants
• National Ambient Air Quality Standards
(see also the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission National Ambient Air Quality Standards site)
• NO_x Trading Programs
• Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) NO_x Budget Program
• Regional Approaches to Improving Air Quality
• Regional Transport of Ozone
• Smog / Regional Transport of Ozone
• Transportation and Air Quality Planning
• Updated Air Quality Standards
• Federal Highway Administration
• Moving Ahead: The American Public Speaks of Roadways and Transportation in Communities
• Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
• A Citizens Guide To Transportation Decision-Making in the Washington Metropolitan Region
• Air Quality
• Air Quality Attainment Plan for 2005
• Air Quality Forecast (and Action Guide)
• Air Quality Public Advisory Committee
• Department of Transportation Planning
  • Transportation Planning Board Annual Report - 2000
  • Report to the Region on Transportation - 2001
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association
• Introduction to Ozone Tables
• National Academy of Sciences - Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
• Air Quality Management in the United States (2004)
• National Institutes of Health - Environmental Health Perspectives
• The Importance of Population Susceptibility for Air Pollution Risk Assessment: A Case Study of Power Plants Near Washington, DC
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Atmospheric Integrated Monitoring Network (AIRMoN)
• Air Resources Laboratory
• Ozone Transport Commission
• Surface Transportation Policy Project
• Why are the Roads So Congested?
• State Air Pollution Control Board
• Code of Virginia - Title 10.3 (Conservation), Chapter 13 (Air Pollution Control Board )
• Virginia Administrative Code - Title 9 (Environment) Agency 5 (State Air Pollution Control Board)
• Southern Environmental Law Center - Virginia Clean Smokestacks Bill
• Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
• Air Check Virginia
• Air Quality
• Air Permitting
• Ozone
and Ozone Nonattainment Localities
• Power Plants in Virginia
• Ozone Data for Virginia
• Ozone data from Prince William County
• State Implementation Plan for Nitrogen Oxides or NO_x

Source: EPA - 8-Hour Ground-level Ozone Designations