Monitoring & Other Data

• Air Now Website (nationwide monitoring data, health information, etc.):  http://airnow.gov 

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ozone, PM, & other data):  www.epa.gov/air/data/index.html

• Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) (ozone, PM & other data):  www.colorado.gov/airquality/

• New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) (ozone, PM & other data):  http://air.nmenv.state.nm.us

• Mesa Verde National Park (ozone, PM & other data):  http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.showlocal&CityID=332    & National Park Service website (ozone):  www.nature.nps.gov/air/data/current/index.cfm

•U.S. Forest Service - Shamrock Station (ozone, NOx, and weather):  www.fsvisimages.com/sham1/sham1.html

•Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) (Visibility, PM, NOx, etc.):  http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/improve/

•Mercury Deposition Network (MDN, mercury in precipitation):  http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/mdn/

•National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP, nitrogen & sulfur in precipitation):  http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/

•Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET) (dry deposition):  http://www.epa.gov/castnet/

Fish Consumption Advisories

•Colorado:  www.cdphe.state.co.us/wq/FishCon/Analyses/

•New Mexico: www.nmenv.state.nm.us/swqb/advisories/ AND www.nmenv.state.nm.us/SWQB/Mercury/index.html

Fire & Smoke Air Quality Information (wildfires, prescribed burns, and potential smoke hazards)

•Southwest Colorado:  www.southwestcoloradofires.org/default.asp

•New Mexico:  www.nmfireinfo.com AND www.nmenv.state.nm.us/aqb/Wildfire-PM.html

Regional Partnerships

•Four Corners Air Quality Group.  Multi-state collaborative effort. Tel. (505) 566-9746:  www.nmenv.state.nm.us/aqb/4C/

•Western Regional Air Partnership - Data, tools, and policies to improve visibility in western parks and wilderness areas:  www.wrapair.org

•Four Corners Office for Resource Efficiency - Energy efficiency incentives, greenhouse gas mitigation:  www.fourcore.org/index.html

•The New Community Coalition - Sustainability in San Miguel County and surrounding region:  www.newcommunitycoalition.org/

State Agencies

•Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment - Air Pollution Control Division: Tel. 303-692-3100, www.cdphe.state.co.us/ap; Water Quality Control Division: Tel., 970-248-7150, www.cdphe.state.co.us/wq

•New Mexico Environment Department - Air Quality Bureau. Tel. 505-566-9746, www.nmenv.state.nm.us/aqb/; Surface Water Quality Bureau: Tel. (505) 827-0187, www.nmenv.state.nm.us/swqb

New Mexico Department of Health. Tel. 505-827-2613,  www.health.state.nm.us/epi/hdata.html

Tribal Agencies

•Jicarilla Apache - Environmental Protection Office. Tel. 505-759-7445:  http://jicarillaonline.com/EPO/index.html

•Navajo Nation - Air Quality Program. Tel. 928-729-4247:  http://navajonationepa.org/airqty/airq.html

•Southern Ute Indian Tribe  - Air Quality. Tel. 970-563-4705: www.southern-ute.nsn.us/SUEPD/Index.htm

•Ute Mountain Ute Tribe - Environmental Program. Tel. 970-564-5432:  www.utemountainuteenvironmental.org

Other Websites & Reports

•US EPA Websites - Air Overview:  www.epa.gov/ebtpages/air.html 

Ozone:  www.epa.gov/air/ozonepollution/basic.html                                             

Air Toxics:  www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/allabout.html 

Visibility:   www.epa.gov/oar/visibility  

Mercury:  www.epa.gov/mercury/                           

National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Criteria Air Pollutants:  www.epa.gov/air/criteria.html

Fact Sheet-Final Revisions to National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Ozone:  www.epa.gov/air/ozonepollution/pdfs/2008_03_factsheet.pdf

Policy actions regarding mercury and power plants:  www.epa.gov/mercury/control_emissions/decision.htm#Chronology

•Colorado Air Toxics :  www.cdphe.state.co.us/ap/uat/uatindex.html   2006 Report:  www.cdphe.state.co.us/ap/down/toxicsreport.pdf

•Regional Haze - Colorado:  www.cdphe.state.co.us/ap/regionalhaze.html

•Regional Haze - New Mexico:  www.nmenv.state.nm.us/aqb/reghaz/Regional-Haze_index.html

•Mercury - CO:  www.cdphe.state.co.us/HM/mercury/envhealthissues.htm  
NM:  www.nmenv.state.nm.us/SWQB/hg_white.html

•Visibility Photo Archive (IMPROVE):  http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/improve/Data/IMPROVE/Data_IMPRPhot.htm

•National Park Service  - Air Resources (for info on Mesa Verde National Park and other sites):  www.nature.nps.gov/air/

•National Park Service  - Air Quality, Rocky Mountain National Park’s Nitrogen Initiative:  www.cdphe.state.co.us/ap/rmnp.html

•Association between Ambient Air Quality Ozone Levels and Medical Visits for Asthma in San Juan County: www.nmenv.state.nm.us/aqb/4C/Documents/SanJuanAsthmaDocBW.pdf

•Air Quality Information for Health Providers:  www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=health_prof.main

•San Juan Basin Health Department - Air Quality:  www.sjbhd.org/en/air-quality

•San Miguel County – Environmental Health Department:  www.sanmiguelcounty.org/departments/envhealth/index.html

Air Quality Education

•NMED website for kids with ozone activity book and poster: http://www.nmenv.state.nm.us/aqb/kids/index.html

•Smog City2 - Hands-on computer simulation of ozone and health consequences:  http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=student.main

•The KnowZone - It's all about the air we breathe, air pollution & how to keep air clean:  www.arb.ca.gov/knowzone/knowzone.htm

•Visibility & Regional Haze Educational Materials:  http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/improve/Education/education.htm

•Teacher’s Air Quality Resources on AirNow website:  www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=static.resource

Forecast Earth – Air Aware Video (21 mins) and other animations:  www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=movie.main

Up-to-date informatin on asbestos and malignant mesothelioma:

http://www.asbestos.com/mesothelioma