The sites listed are intended to facilitate your search for additional information on air quality issues and other related topics. The Division for Air Quality does not endorse nor guarantee the accuracy of the information presented, nor will it be responsible for any of the data, ideas or opinions contained at the locations below cited.
Air & Waste Management Association - The Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional organization that provides training, information and networking opportunities to thousands of environmental professionals in 65 countries.
Compliance Assistance, Division of - The Kentucky Division of Compliance Assistance was created in 2004 to assist individuals and businesses in their efforts to comply with Kentucky’s environmental requirements. The division’s creation has been warmly received and the demand for the division’s services is growing daily.
Envirofacts - Welcome to Envirofacts, a single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data. This Web site provides access to several EPA databases to provide you with information about environmental activities that may affect air, water and land anywhere in the United States. With Envirofacts, you can learn more about these environmental activities in your area or you can generate maps of environmental information.
Environmental News Networks - For 10 years the Environmental News Network has helped to educate the world about environmental issues. We began in 1993 as a monthly print publication called "Environmental News Briefing," and launched www.enn.com in 1995 to reach a broader, more diverse audience.
Environmental Quality Commission, Kentucky - Welcome to the Kentucky Environmental Quality Commission Web site. EQC is a seven-member citizen board created under state law and charged with the mission of strengthening the public role in solving environmental problems in our communities and state. EQC targets key issues, conducts public meetings and advises the governor and other state officials on environmental matters of public concern.
Environmental Program Support, Division of - The Division of Environmental Program Support is comprised of three branches - Environmental Services Branch, Environmental Response Branch, and Administrative Support Branch.
Environmental Web Directory, The - The Earth's biggest environment search engine.
EPA Home Page - EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment — air, water and land — upon which life depends. For 30 years, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people. View the agency's complete mission statement, strategic plan, annual report, and policy resources.
EPA's Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (QAQPS) - The Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards' (OAQPS) primary mission is to preserve and improve air quality in the United States. OAQPS, as part of this goal, monitors and reports on air quality, air toxics and emissions. They also watch for visibility issues, as they relate to the level of air pollution. In addition, OAQPS is tasked by the EPA with providing technical information for professionals involved with monitoring and controlling air pollution, creating governmental policies, rules and guidance for professionals and government, and educating the public about air pollution and what can be done to control and prevent it.
EPA's Acid Rain Program - Acid rain is a serious environmental problem that affects large parts of the United States and Canada. This section of the Web site provides information about acid rain's causes and effects, how we measure acid rain and what is being done to solve the problem.
EPA's Region 4 Office of Air and Radiation - The Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) develops national programs, technical policies and regulations for controlling air pollution and radiation exposure. OAR is concerned with energy conservation and pollution prevention, indoor and outdoor air quality, industrial air pollution, pollution from vehicles and engines, radon, acid rain, stratospheric ozone depletion and radiation protection.
EPA's Region 5 Air and Radiation Division - Air pollution, clean air, and air quality information is provided by the U.S. EPA's Region 5 Air and Radiation Division. We manage and develop national programs, enforcement, technical policies and regulations for controlling air pollution and radiation exposure. We are also concerned with pollution prevention, indoor and outdoor air quality, industrial air pollution, pollution from vehicles and engines, radon, acid rain, ozone depletion, the Energy Star program and radiation protection.
EPA's Technology Transfer Network - The Technology Transfer Network (TTN) is a collection of technical Web sites containing information about many areas of air pollution science, technology, regulation, measurement and prevention. In addition, the TTN serves as a public forum for the exchange of technical information and ideas among participants and EPA staff.
Federal Web Navigator, The - The Federal Web Navigator is a service provided by the Center for Information Law and Policy and is intended to be the one-stop shopping point for federal government information on the World Wide Web.
FedWorld Information Network - The FedWorld.gov Web site is a gateway to government information.
Forestry, Division - Our mission is to protect and enhance the forest resources of the commonwealth through a public informed of the environmental and economic importance of these resources.
KAIRE - KAIRE is Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District’s community outreach and education program for the Louisville metro area. Enhancing our neighborhoods and quality of life helps to ensure environmental and economic health for residents. KAIRE's primary goal is to increase public awareness of the impact individual choices can have on local air quality.
Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition - The goal of the Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition is to improve air quality and support economic development across Kentucky by promoting the use of clean fuels.
Kentucky Legislature Home Page - Services LRC provides include: committee staffing, bill drafting, oversight of the state budget and educational reform, production of educational materials, maintenance of a reference library and Internet site, and the preparation and printing of research reports, informational bulletins and a legislative newspaper.
- Kentucky Administrative Regulations - Title 401 Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet (formerly the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet) Department for Environmental Protection regulations.
Lexington Bluegrass Mobility Office-Ozone Alerts - This Web page is part of the Lexington Area Metropolitan Planning Organization's efforts to monitor the air quality and the level of ozone (ground level) air pollution in the Lexington area and promote increased awareness of air quality issues.
Library of Congress - The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 126 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include nearly 19 million books, 2.6 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps and 56 million manuscripts.
Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District - The Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District (APCD) is the air pollution control agency of Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky. It is the only local air pollution control agency in Kentucky. Established in 1945 as the Louisville Smoke Abatement Commission, it became the Air Pollution Control District of Jefferson County in 1952. After the City-County Compact of 1986, APCD staff were employees of the Jefferson County government until the county government merged with the city of Louisville effective Jan. 6, 2003. In the merged Louisville/Jefferson County government, APCD has been renamed the Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District. It is part of the Community Development Cabinet. A board of citizens, the Air Pollution Control Board, oversees the district.
Louisville Air Quality Index - The Air Pollution Control District of Jefferson County issues an Air Quality Index four times daily during the weekdays. The Air Quality Index provides the current index, the elevated pollutant, the current category and a short-term forecast.
NACAA - The National Association of Clean Air Agencies (formerly STAPPA and ALAPCO) welcomes you to this Web site. Explore this Web site to locate state and local air agencies across the nation, access the latest information on important air pollution topics, learn about the association's positions and initiatives and find links to other related Web sites. Please visit NACAA's international Web site, Clean Air World.
National Weather Service-Louisville - To get a quick glimpse of the weather in central Kentucky and southern Indiana.
Pollution Prevention Center-Kentucky University of Louisville - The Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center is the commonwealth's primary resource for pollution prevention technical assistance, training and applied research. The center helps organizations increase efficiency and profitability by identifying opportunities for waste reduction and other methods for improving environmental management.
SESARM-Metro 4 - Welcome to the Web site of Metro 4 Inc. and Southeastern States Air Resource Managers Inc., nonprofit corporations formed respectively by the local and state air pollution control agencies located in the southeastern states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. While this Web site is designed primarily to serve the needs of the member agencies of Metro 4 and SESARM, we offer the information on our site for general public use as well.
Thomas - Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. Searching capabilities in THOMAS were built on the InQuery information retrieval system, developed by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval based at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
U.S. Department of Commerce - Located in Washington, D.C. it consists of many levels of administration such as economics, security, census, etc.
VISTAS - The Visibility Improvement State and Tribal Association of the Southeast (VISTAS) is a collaborative effort of state governments, tribal governments and various federal agencies established to initiate and coordinate activities associated with the management of regional haze, visibility and other air quality issues in the southeastern United States.
Water, Division of - The Division of Water is charged with the responsibility for managing and protecting the state's waters, both on the surface in lakes, streams and rivers as well as groundwater beneath the surface of the land in the state.
Waste Management, Division of - The Kentucky Division of Waste Management operates under the umbrella of the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection, and it has eight branches. Its mission is to protect human health and the environment by minimizing adverse impacts on all citizens of the commonwealth through the development and implementation of fair, equitable and effective waste management programs.
State/Local Air Quality Web Sites
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality
California Air Resources Board
California South Coast Air Quality Management District
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
Florida Department for Environmental Protection-Air Resource Management
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Idaho Division of Environmental Quality
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Indiana Department of Environmental Management
Iowa Air Quality Bureau-Department of Natural Resources
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
Maine Bureau of Air Quality
Maryland Department of Environment
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Montana Department of Environmental Quality
Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
Nevada Division of Environmental Protection
New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
New Mexico Environment Department
New York Air Resources Division
North Carolina Department for Environment and Natural Resources
North Dakota Department of Health -- Division for Air Quality
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Utah Department of Environmental Quality
Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Washington Department of Ecology
West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
