Clean Air Reports and Resources
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Latest Resources
Interactive Clean Air GeoStory |
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Check out NPCA's Interactive Clean Air "GeoStory": Watch allies explain why clean air is important to them. |
Protecting People and Parks from Dangerous Haze |
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Cleaning up the Haze: Protecting People and America’s Treasured Places asks EPA to drop its proposed BART rule exemption so that our country’s most iconic natural places are fully protected from unsightly and unhealthy air. |
Ozone Pollution Exceedances in National Parks at Three-Year High |
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Each year, tens of millions of people visit picturesque national parks like Joshua Tree National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park and Sequoia National Park expecting clean, healthy air, but increasingly they are putting themselves at risk for serious respiratory and pulmonary illnesses caused by ozone pollution in these parks. This NPCA report looks at this growing threat in our national parks and two pieces of Congressional legislation that threaten to exacerbate the situation even more. |
More Resources
It's Time to Act on Air Pollution
NPCA's 2009 report Protect the Air We Breathe: An Agenda for Clean Air details the air pollution problem and with clear recommendations to improve air quality.
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National Parks at Risk from Coal-Fired Power Plants
Our report from May 2008, Dark Horizons (PDF, 3.5 MB), identifies the top ten national parks at risk from pollution from new coal-fired power plants.
Read more and download the report >
