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Year-Round AQI Forecasts -- Outreach Efforts

Learn about EPA's efforts to provide year-round AQI forecasts, outreach initiatives, and educational resources to reduce exposure to ozone and PM. Discover simple messages for media, steps to lessen exposure risks, and where to find detailed information to protect your health.

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Year-Round AQI Forecasts -- Outreach Efforts

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  1. Year-Round AQI Forecasts-- Outreach Efforts Debbie Stackhouse EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards stackhouse.debbie@epa.gov 919-541-5354

  2. AIRNow Distribution • Forecasts • Maps • Health Info • Media Info

  3. Outreach Efforts • Simple Messages for Media to Use • Forecasts (ozone and PM) • Steps to reduce exposure • Where to look for detailed info

  4. Outreach Efforts • Educate Meteorologists about PM • Enlist Them to Carry AQI Year-Round • Expand Media Partnerships • Educate Health Care Professionals

  5. Year-Round AQI Launch • National Launch and Press Event – October 2003 • Parallel Regional Office Launches

  6. New Products

  7. New Products • For Meteorologists • Short Course on AQI and PM • AMS Conference Session and Exhibit • CD-ROM Tool Kit • For Press Events • Press Kits • Video News Release • Regional Launch Tool Kits

  8. PM Air Quality Guide

  9. Particles and Your Health

  10. Air Quality Media Kit Ozone at:epa.gov/airnow/mediakits/ozone PM: Spring 2003

  11. Asthma Video • Indoor and Outdoor Air Triggers • In Spanish • Late Spring 2003

  12. Smoke Effects • Smoke web site (Spring 2003)http://www.epa.gov/airnow/smoke • Pamphlet

  13. Revisions to Existing Documents

  14. AQI -- A Guide toAir Quality and Your Health

  15. Guideline for Reporting AQI

  16. Ozone Good Up High, Bad Nearby

  17. Regional Haze

  18. EPA HQ Contacts • AIRNow Program Director: Chet Wayland • wayland.richard@epa.gov (919) 541-4603 • AQI Health Issues: Susan Stone • stone.susan@epa.gov (919) 541-1146 • AQI Outreach Issues: Debbie Stackhouse • stackhouse.debbie@epa.gov (919) 541-5432 • AIRNow Project Manager: John White • white.johne@epa.gov (919) 541-2306 • PM Monitoring Issues: Tim Hanley • hanley.tim@epa.gov (919) 541-4417 • PM Forecasting Issues: Pat Dolwick • dolwick.pat@epa.gov (919) 541-5346

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