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Links
Additional information about pollution where you live and what you can do about it, emissions, and vehicles and fuels, is available through the following Web resources:
NOTE: You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, available as a free download, to view some of the files on this page. See EPA's PDF page to learn more about PDF, and for a link to the free Acrobat Reader.
Where You Live & What You Can Do
- AirData: Use this comprehensive database to create custom reports about pollution in your state or county, including types of pollution, types of sources, location of pollution monitoring sites, and more. Link directly to a query screen where you can access county-level criteria pollutant data or to a query screen where you can access county-level toxics data.
- AIRNOW: Use real-time air quality data from where you live to learn how you can change your habits to reduce air pollution. Access information about air pollution and health, a kids page, and more.
- Smog City: Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District Web Site:
Use an interactive air pollution simulator to learn how your transportation choices and other factors contribute to air pollution. - Concerned Citizens and Consumer Information: Learn environmentally friendly vehicle maintenance and operation tips, options for commuting to reduce vehicle travel, and beneficial landscaping concepts to reduce pollution associated with lawn and yard care.
- Transportation and Air Quality Center: Access information on how to help communities and individuals reduce vehicle travel. These programs provide incentives for increasing the use of mass transit, carpooling, bicycling, telecommuting, and other strategies that reduce single-driver vehicles.
- Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance (I/M): Learn how I/M programs help reduce pollution by identifying vehicles in need of repair.
- On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) Systems: Learn how OBD systems alert drivers when vehicles are emitting more pollutants than they should and store information to help automotive technicians diagnose and correct the problem.
Emissions
- Automobile Emissions: An Overview (PDF): (86K) Read a fact sheet that explains the basics of automotive combustion and pollution.
- The Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report, 1999: Read a comprehensive analysis of the air quality in the United States in 1999.
- National Emission Inventory/Air Pollutant Emission Trends: Search a clearinghouse of information about criteria air pollutant emissions trends.
- Air Quality Where You Live: Learn about air quality in the United States, including how much pollution is in the air and the causes of the pollution. is in the air and the causes of the pollution. Link directly to pages about nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, air toxics, and ozone.
- Toxic Air Pollutants: Learn about air toxics in the United States, including how much toxic pollution is in the air, its causes, and what EPA is doing to reduce it.
- Air Toxics from Motor Vehicles (PDF) (21K) Read a brief fact sheet about human carcinogens emitted from motor vehicles, how they are formed, and how they can be reduced.
- Health and Environmental Effects of Particulate Matter: Read a fact sheet describing health and environmental concerns of particulate matter and proposed EPA controls.
- Visibility Web Site: Learn about haze and visibility impairment caused by air pollution in the United States.
- Regional Haze and Visibility Protection: Learn about haze, its causes, its environmental and health effects, and EPA efforts to control haze and improve visibility.
- All About Smog, California Air Resources Board Web Site: Access background information about smog and other pollutants geared towards students.
- Global Warming Site: Learn about the problems, causes, and solutions to global warming.
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics National Transportation Statistics 2000 Report: Read a report, compiled and published annually by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, that presents detailed national-level data on the U.S. transportation system, including its energy use and environmental impacts.
Vehicles and Fuels
- Green Vehicle Guide: Review environmental ratings for various vehicle makes and models.
- Fuel Economy Web Site: Search the Fuel Economy Guide, produced by EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy, that estimates the fuel economy rankings for passenger vehicles. The guide helps consumers find and compare gas mileage, fuel cost, and greenhouse gas emissions for both new and used vehicles.
- Fuels: Read about efforts to make stricter rules for the quality of gasoline and diesel fuels.
- Clean Fuels: An Overview (PDF): (25K) Read a fact sheet describing clean fuels and their benefits.
- Highway Vehicle Emissions, Transportation Choices & Fuel Issues: Learn about vehicles, fuels, and engines, including international issues, regulations, and educational information.
- Nonroad Vehicles and Engines: Learn about nonroad mobile sources such as marine vessels and locomotive engines
- Federal and California Exhaust and Evaporative Emission Standards for Light-Duty Vehicles and Light-Duty Trucks
- Emissions Standards Reference Guide for Heavy-Duty and Nonroad Vehicles (PDF) (142KB)