Air Quality Awareness Week

This week, the week of 6-10 May, is being observed as Air Quality Awareness Week, an observance designed to highlight resources that increase air quality awareness and encourage people to take action and incorporate air quality knowledge into their daily living. This year's theme is "Knowing Your Air."

For more information about this observance, please visit:

EPA: Air Quality Awareness Week

National Weather Service: Why Air Quality Is Important

Background information:

AirNow (partnership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Park Service, NASA, Centers for Disease Control, and tribal, state, and local air quality agencies)

AirNow: Air Quality Index

Facebook: AirNow