Air Quality Reports, Studies, Maps

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Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency Monthly Air Quality Reports in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format:

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Maintenance Plans

• Spokane CO Nonattainment Area Maintenance Plan
• Spokane PM10 Nonattainment Area Limited Maintenance Plan

Maps

• Carbon Monoxide (CO) Maintenance Area Map
• Particulate Matter PM10 Maintenance Area Map
  
• Smoke Control Zone (for wood and other solid fuel burning device curtailments)

Special Monitoring Projects

• Air Toxic Monitoring - Community Assessment
• Liberty Lake Monitoring Site Page
• Latah Valley PM₁₀/PM_2.5 Air Quality Study Report

Washington State Department of Ecology Publications:

• December 2009 "Health Effects and Economic Impacts of Fine Particle Pollution in Washington. 
  
  
• 2005 Air Emissions Inventory - The Washington State Department of Ecology has the most recent "Three Year Comprehensive Air Emissions Inventory" available on their website. If you're interested is detailed information about emissions/pollutants and the sources of pollutants, this is a good report to take a look at. The emissions data is presented in multiple ways: by pollutant, by source and by county. Click here for a link to Ecology's webpage for the latest published Emissions Inventory.
  
• 1999 - 2002 Air Quality Data Summary
• 2000 - 2002 Air Quality Trends Report
• 1999 Air Quality Trends in Washington
• 1998 Air Quality Data Summary
• 1998 Washington State Air Quality Annual Report
• 1997 Air Quality Data Summary
• 1997 Air Quality Annual Report
• 1996 Air Quality Data Summary

American Lung Association Reports

• State of the Air in Washington 

Other Studies & Reports

• Spokane's BNSF Rail Yard Study
  Related documents:
  • Q & A regarding Spokane's BNSF Rail Yard Study
  • Washington State Dept of Health Cancer Cluster Report 
    
• Reducing the Impacts of Wood Smoke from Home Wood Burning Devices — Wood Smoke Work Group Report to the Governor and Legislature, December 2007  
• Ambient Air Pollution and the Progression of Atherosclerosis in Adults
• Ambient Woodsmoke and Associated Respiratory Emergency Department Visits in Spokane, Washington
• Episodes of High Coarse Particle Concentrations Are Not Associated with Increased Mortality
• How Traffic Pollution Damages the Heart New Scientist (Print Edition)
• Fine-Particulate Air Pollution and Life Expectancy in the United States New England Journal of Medicine
• History of Air Monitoring in Spokane County/ Results of Spokane 2005 Air Toxics Community Assessment Study Presented to the Inland Empire Chapter of the Air and Waste Management Association meeting April 28, 2009
• Northwest Columbia Plateau PM10 Project 2009 Annual Report 
• Regional Air Quality Update Presented to the Columbia Plateau PM10 Project Annual Meeting, WSU, Pullman, WA, December 1, 2010