• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Brownfield/Land Reuse Initiative. ATSDR Dose Calculator.
  The ATSDR Dose Calculator is a computer program that allows users to computer the amount of a toxic substance an individual may be exposed to (dose). Users of this tool can select from air, soil, water, or fish consumption scenarios; customize exposure parameters; and review ATSDR and EPA health comparison values, among other features.

• Air Pollution Control Technology Series Training Tool
  The control technology series is a self instructional training tool that is designed to provide a basic overview to those unfamiliar with a variety of air pollution control technologies. The series is broken down into different types of equipment such as: wet scrubbers, carbon absorption, incineration, condensation, and electrostatic precipitators.

• Air Toxics Community Assessment and Risk Reduction Projects Database
  This database has been compiled to provide a resource of planned, completed, and ongoing community level air toxics assessments across the country. By sharing information about efforts at the local level to measure, understand, and address air toxics emissions, this database will help ensure that communities designing and implementing their own assessments will be able to build upon past efforts and lessons learned.

• Air Toxics Risk Assessment (ATRA) Reference Library
  EPA is developing an ATRA reference library for conducting air toxics analyses at the facility and community-scale. This library provides information on the fundamental principles of risk-based assessment for air toxics and how to apply those principles in different settings as well as strategies for reducing risk at the local level.

• AirData
  The AirData website gives you access to air pollution data for the entire United States. Want to know the highest ozone level measured in your state last year? Ever wonder where air pollution monitoring sites are located? Are there sources of air pollution in your town? You can find out here! AirData produces reports and maps of air pollution data based on criteria that you specify.

• AirNow
  AirNow provides air quality information in a visual format. Every day the Air Quality Index (AQI) tells you how clean or polluted your outdoor air is, along with associated health effects that may be of concern. The AQI translates air quality data into numbers and colors that help people understand when to take action to protect their health.

• Animal Feeding Operations (AFO) Air Programs
  This website provides valuable information and facts on regulations for AFOs and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) related to air programs. Including on the sources and management of odors from raising large scale livestock production, such as hog, cattle, dairy, sheep, and poultry farms, that congregate animals, feed, waste, and production operations on a small land area.

• Clean Air Act Overview
  The Clean Air Act Overview web site provides citizens with a primer on Clean Air Act requirements and how the Act works, progress that the nation has made in cleaning the air, and remaining air pollution challenges. In addition to providing a nutshell summary and links to the text of the Act, the site offers information on the role of science and technology in standard-setting; an explanation of the roles of federal, state, local and tribal governments in implementing the Act; an overview of the notice-and-comment process; examples of how EPA works with citizens and stakeholder groups in developing rules; examples of how air rules provide flexibility on ways to comply with accountability for results; and a primer on issues involving the Clean Air Act and the economy.

• Clean School Bus USA
  Clean School Bus is a national, innovative program designed to help communities reduce emissions from older diesel school buses.

• Common Air Pollutants
  EPA has set national air quality standards for six common pollutants (also referred to as "criteria" pollutants, such as ozone, particulate matter, and lead). This website is a gateway of information on the sources of these pollutants, why they are of concern, health and environmental effects, and efforts underway to help reduce these pollutants in the environment.

• Community Health Status Indicators Exit
  Provides an overview of key health indicators for local communities at the county level, including comparisons to peer-counties & comparisons to Healthy People 2010 targets; some indicators related to environmental health, children's health

• County Health Rankings Exit
  Provides data at the county level on selected health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and physical environment, that allows communities to compare themselves to other communities or to state or national rates

• Envirofacts Data Warehouse
  Envirofacts provides direct access to the information contained in EPA's databases. Envirofacts allows the public to retrieve data from many of the Agency data systems, develop online queries, create reports, and map results.

• Healthy Air: A Community and Business Leaders Guide
  This guide is a collection of non-regulatory, time-and-cost-saving ideas communities can use to reduce toxic air pollution.

• Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools Kit
  IAQ Tools for Schools Action Kit shows schools how to carry out a practical plan to improve indoor air problems at little- or no-cost using straightforward activities and in-house staff. The kit provides best practices, industry guidelines, sample policies, and a sample IAQ management plan.

• Local Climate and Energy Program
  Link to the index page of web content provided EPA's Local Climate and Energy Program. The Local Climate and Energy Program helps local governments meet sustainability goals with cost-effective climate change and clean energy strategies.

• Methods for Assessing Mobile Source Air Toxics
  This website provides links to a variety of topics related to the assessment of toxic air pollutants emitted from onroad (e.g. on-highway vehicles) and nonroad mobile sources (e.g. aircraft, commercial marine vessels, and locomotives). There are examples of community-based air toxics assessment and risk reduction projects. Information provided via this website is suitable for technical audience.

• Mercury
  Human activity can release mercury into the air, water and soil. In the U.S., coal-fired power plants are the biggest source of mercury emissions to the air. This website provides information on mercury effects, sources, and programs to reduce exposure.

• Office of Transportation and Air Quality's Consumer Information
  This website provides information on what consumers can do to reduce mobile source air toxics emissions. It also provides links to a variety of fact sheets on pollutants from mobile source emissions and key topics related to transportation and air quality.

• Radon Publications
  The radon publications website contains EPA publications including A Citizen's Guide to Radon, Home Buyer's and Seller's Guide to Radon, A Radon Guide for Tenants, and Radon in Schools. These publications can help educate community members about how to test for and reduce radon, which is a known human lung carcinogen and the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States.

• Real Time Geospatial viewer
  RETIGO is designed to reduce technical barriers to explore geospatial air data over time and space. RETIGO is a “plug and play” type tool that enables users to input large and complex data such as pollution concentrations, wind speed and other meteorological conditions, time of day, and location (global positioning). They can then plot the data on a map and on several graph options to observe trends. 

• Toxic Air Pollutant
  This page provides links to information about air toxics in the United States. You can find out how much air toxic pollution is in the air, the causes of the pollution, and what the EPA is doing to reduce it.

• Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)
  TRI is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities reported annually by certain covered industry groups as well as federal facilities. The information is technical, but useful for all audiences.

• Urban Air Toxics
  Learn about urban air toxics, health effects, sources and more.

• Voluntary Diesel Retrofit Program
  EPA's National Clean Diesel Campaign (NCDC) promotes clean air strategies by working with manufacturers, fleet operators, air quality professionals, environmental and community organizations, and state and local officials to reduce diesel emissions.

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