The City Clean Air Hub
A one-stop resource to help city leaders tackle local air pollution and chart a path to cleaner air and healthier communities.
Your city’s residents deserve to breathe cleaner air.
We’re here to help you make that a reality.
Air pollution is a silent and often invisible killer — the second leading risk factor for early death worldwide. It also shares many of the same root causes with — and is being worsened by — climate change.
The good news is solutions exist. The City Clean Air Hub is built to help cities chart a path to cleaner air and to connect them with the data tools, resources and policy insights that they need to get there.
What can the City Clean Air Hub help your city do?
- Identify data on air pollution sources, emissions and air quality
- Develop strategies to communicate pollution risks that support community health
- Find and prioritize approaches for cutting pollution and exposures to poor air quality
- Quantify air pollution impacts on health and quality of life within your city
- Build funding strategies to support air quality programs
- Track progress and evaluate the impacts of air quality programs
A silent killer
How air pollution affects health in your city
City residents feel air pollution’s effects every day through rising asthma cases, emergency room visits, cancer diagnoses and more. Beyond the health costs, air pollution carries enormous economic costs — more than $1 trillion every year in the United States. Focusing solutions on groups that are most affected is key to maximizing health benefits and correcting the legacy of unfair treatment.
Learn more about air pollution’s health impacts in your city with our localized mapping tool.
Across the United States, air pollution exposure contributes to
3 steps for tackling air pollution in your city
To cut local air pollution, your city needs a localized plan. Start with these three steps to build a custom roadmap to cleaner air and find curated resources to support your city at each stage.
What local clean air leadership looks like
Cities across the country are taking action on air quality and seeing results. Check out these case studies to learn from what’s worked in other cities.
Resource spotlight
Our resource library has hundreds of top databases, tools, models, guides and other assets to help your city better track and tackle air pollution.
