Interactive report

Get a close look at the Valley's air-quality problem with audio, video, animations, and an interactive quiz and game. You also can check the smog-test results of any California vehicle or light truck.

Listen to Bee staff

In a podcast, the reporters on the "Fighting for Air" special section discuss the pollution challenge facing the Valley.

Stories

Escaping smog

These families and people have left the Valley, blaming health problems caused by air pollution.

Graphics

Contacts, links to air-quality information

Get in touch with agencies

San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District
Central Region office
1990 E. Gettysburg Ave.
Fresno, CA 93726

Phone: (559) 230-6000
E-mail: sjvapcd@valleyair.org
Board meetings and minutes: http://www.valleyair.org/board_meetings/GB/governing_board_schedules.htm

California Air Resources Board
Headquarters Building
1001 I St.
P.O. Box 2815
Sacramento, CA 95812

Phone: (916) 322-2990 or (800) 242-4450
E-mail: helpline@arb.ca.gov
Web site: http://www.valleyair.org/index.htm
Board meetings and minutes: http://www.arb.ca.gov/board/meetings.htm#past

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 9 office
75 Hawthorne St.
San Francisco, CA, 94105

Phone (general information): (866)-EPA-WEST
List of phone contacts/resources: http://www.epa.gov/region09/lib-hot.html
Web site: http://www.epa.gov/region09/

American Lung Association
http://www.lungusa.org

South Coast Air Quality Management District
(Orange County and urban portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties) http://www.aqmd.gov/

Air pollution's impacts on health

California Air Resources Board fact sheet on health
http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/health/fs/fs1/fs1.htm

American Lung Association of California air quality information
http://www.californialung.org/support/outdoorair.shtml

Particle pollution and health
http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=static.aqguidepart

Consumer information

Fuel economy information (U.S. Department of Energy)
http://www.fueleconomy.gov

Indoor-air cleaners that generate ozone
http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/indoor/ozone.htm

Air pollution measurements

Valley air quality index
http://www.valleyair.org/aqinfo/aqdataidx.htm

Summary of California ozone violations (by region)
http://www.arb.ca.gov/aqmis2/annual_ozone.php

Annual summary of California air quality
http://www.arb.ca.gov/aqd/almanac/almanac.htm

How to look up air quality index on Google Earth
http://www.epa.gov/region09/air/airnow/

National air quality tracking site
http://airnow.gov/

Guide, in plain English, to federal Clear Air Act
http://www.epa.gov/air/caa/peg/