Prevent generation of local air contaminants so as to improve community health.
Best Practice
Best Practice Actions
a. Indoor and outdoor wood burning behavior, to ensure that wood burning is only done with seasoned wood and in a manner that lessens the impact on neighbors.
b. Indoor wood burning technology, to result in community members upgrading from inefficient/more polluting fireplaces and wood stoves to pellet/gas/biogas devices, air source heat pumps, or the most efficient certified wood stoves.
c. Smoker cars - older model/high polluting vehicles, to result in repairs spurred by repair vouchers.
a. Recreational burning.
b. Outdoor residential wood boilers.
c. Burning of Emerald Ash Borer wood.
a. Decreased vehicle idling, business trucking emissions, pollutants/noise from stationary engines/back-up generators.
b. Participation in the Air Aware Employers program.
c. Adoption of a smoking-free policy at one or more multi-unit housing buildings, private or public.
d. Replacement of gasoline-powered small equipment with lower polluting equipment.
e. Increased sales by retail stores of low and no-VOC household products.