Information About Air

Issues relating to agricultural emissions, carbon sequestration and production of crops for alternative bio-based fuels.

• NRCS Air Quality
  The NRCS air quality team is a group of scientists, located at various sites across the country, who work to include air quality concerns in NRCS programs and operations.
• Agricultural Air Quality Task Force
  The Agricultural Air Quality Task Force has been created in accordance with Section 391 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform (FAIR) Act of 1996, which directs the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, to establish a task force to address agricultural air quality issues.
• Joint Agricultural Weather Facility (JAWF)
  The Joint Agricultural Weather Facility (JAWF) is jointly operated by the World Agricultural Outlook Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce.  JAWF tracks weather in the principal agricultural regions of the world.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - West Virginia  Air Quality
  Current air quality maps, animations, forecasts, and state and local Web sites provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Green Book
  This web page identifies areas of the country where air pollution levels persistently exceed the national ambient air quality standards may be designated "nonattainment."