Topic: Stakeholder engagement

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Website for the Oregon DEQ Community Air Action Planning program, which aims to begin improving local air quality in historically overburdened areas through a collaborative process of community-led action.

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The Toolkit for Municipal Extreme Heat & Air Quality Response Planning in Connecticut is a set of resources designed for municipal public health departments that are committed to climate change preparedness and resilience, with a specific focus on extreme heat and poor air quality stemming from ozone and PM2.5 levels.

Drawing from nearly 20 extreme heat and/or air quality response plans across the U.S., the toolkit includes a template for local heat and air quality preparedness and response plans, highlights innovative strategies from municipalities in California, Maine, Connecticut, and Colorado, and provides shareable resources that can be adapted by local stakeholders.

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Toolkit intended for communities to build capacity to participate in air quality planning and advocacy. Tools and resources in the toolkit serve several purposes including engagement, information, planning, activism, and scaling solutions.

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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.

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Website providing a variety of resources for community development and engagement.

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Website providing health and environmental data for municipalities in New Jersey

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MiEJScreen is a screening tool that provided percentile scoring various environmental, health and socioeconomic indicators to measure relative environmental risk in communities. This map is meant for general information about Environmental Justice in Michigan and is a collection of basic data sets related to Environmental Justice concerns which allow users to identify, query, and filter the data.

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Guidance for residents for behavioral changes that can reduce indoor and outdoor air pollution.

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Website with resources to learn more about wildfire smoke and how to reduce exposures.

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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.

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