Policies and Reports

The FHWA’s Environmental Guidebook, Volume I, Chapter I: Air Quality

The Clean Air Act

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Plain English Guide to the Clean Air Act

US EPA’s AIRS Data

US Environmental Protection Agency Community-Based Environmental Protection Program

US EPA’s Framework for Community-Based Environmental Protection

US EPA Community-Based Environmental Protection: A Resource Book for Protecting Ecoystems and Communities

US Health and Human Services Community Health Status Indicators Project

American Trucking Association vs. EPA (Case 97-1440)

Environmental Protection Agency vs. American Trucking Association case (Case 99-1257)

US Appeals Court Decision in American Trucking Association vs. EPA: Case 97-1440.

This case was argued in January 2000 with the hyperlinked decision rendered in February 2001.

Environmental Defense Fund vs. EPA (Case 97-1637) Following the release of this hyperlinked decision by the US District Court of Appeals in March, 1999, the EPA chose not to appeal.

American Lung Association

State of the Air 2001

National Ambient Air Quality Standards Public Policy Brief

State of the Air in Texas 2001

State of the Air in Texas 2001 Press Release

National Safety Council’s Environmental Health Center Air Quality Program

Background on Air Pollution

Ozone Fact Sheet

Air Pollution Fact Sheet

Personal Travel: The Long and Short of It Redefining Conventional Wisdom: Exploration of Automobile Ownership and Travel Behavior

Toward Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs

Organizations and People

American Lung Association

Texas Chapter, American Lung Association

American Public Health Association

Conservation Law Foundation

Environmental Defense Fund

Ozone Action

Physicians for Social Responsibility

National Association of Physicians for the Environment

National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals

State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators/ Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials

International City and County Management Association

Texas Association of Regional Councils

Texas Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations