Air Quality
Improve air quality and eliminate pollution.
Objectives
- Reduce & mitigate emissions of criteria pollutants.
- Enforce air emissions regulations.
- Conduct local monitoring to augment regional emissions reporting.
Indicators
- Air quality index.
- Annual mean levels of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 and PM 10).
- Average surface air temperature.
- Number of industrial sites per thousand residents.
- Number of miles heavy trucking routes per thousand residents.
- Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution
Illustrative Targets
- Reduce in half the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air pollution and contamination by 2030.