Topic: Air emissions reductions strategy
Website for the Complete Streets initiative. Complete Streets approach integrates people and place in the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of our transportation networks. The National Complete Streets Coalition works to ensure streets prioritize safety over speed, balance the needs of different modes, and support local land uses, economies, cultures, and natural environments.
Template intended to help jurisdictions navigate the community action planning process by providing a set of sample strategic objectives, actions, and evaluation metrics to plan program activities to address key children’s environmental health issues in communities.
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).
Report on air pollution impacts from NYC Congestion Relief Zone. Provides data from real-time air quality monitoring inside and outside the zone.
Website for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s vehicle idling reduction program. Includes messaging/communication and technical resources that can be used to establish local anti-idling programs.
Website for NY City Clean Trucks Program, providing an example of how a city can structure a program to replace, retrofit, or scrap heavy duty diesel trucks
Website providing information about the Ohio EPA Emission Reduction Credit Banking Program
Website providing links to three examples of Michigan city ordinances for open burning.
Website for SC Breathe Better anti-idling campaign, which is focused on reducing idling near schools and local businesses.
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.
