Sector: Residential
Website for the South Carolina Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program. Provides an example of how to structure a subaward program to fund local projects using US Department of Energy funds.
Utah website to access funding opportunities for air quality projects. Provides a good example of how to set up a resource that can be used by individuals, companies, or local governments to access information about grants, rebates, tax credits, and financing for local projects.
Repository for the Simple Interactive Models for better air quality set of tools. These tools demonstrate fundamental equations to calculate, visualize, and interpret air emissions and pollution. The tools are intended to make links between emissions, pollution dispersion, impacts, and potential solutions more accessible to a wider set of stakeholders. The tools include models as well as primers on different air quality topics.
Report containing tools to equip development finance institution project officers and portfolio managers with information to design projects that generate air quality benefits. It includes basic information on air quality and health impacts, and ways to integrate air quality in investment decisions. The goal is to increase the volume and types of financing available for air quality programs.
Guidance for residents for behavioral changes that can reduce indoor and outdoor air pollution.
Website providing tools related to air quality during inversions (conditions when a layer or warm air sits over a layer of cold air, trapping pollutants near the ground).
The DEQ North Carolina Community Mapping System is an online, interactive mapping platform that brings together environmental, health, demographic, and infrastructure data to help communities understand local conditions and support environmental justice and planning efforts. Through a web map interface, users can explore layers related to air and water quality, regulated facilities, climate and flooding risks, sensitive receptors (like schools), and community characteristics, allowing residents, advocates, and decision?makers to identify overburdened areas, visualize cumulative impacts, and inform permitting, enforcement, and investment decisions.
Website providing links to three examples of Michigan city ordinances for open burning.
Presentation on how to design a rule to establish standards for space and water heaters. Includes information on rule development, estimating emissions reductions and health impacts, and estimating costs.
Document providing basic information on methods for reducing dust emissions
