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Smoke and Air Quality Home
There are many sources of smoke in our environment, including wood stoves in homes, backyard burning of yard waste, land clearing activities, wildfires, and controlled burns for resource management purposes, such agricultural and forest burning. State and local authorities have the primary responsibility to protect the quality of our air and to administer programs that control burning.
Burning may also be conducted or controlled by federal agencies or by Indian tribes through tribal laws. Many kinds of programs are used to reduce the emissions and impacts of smoke, including wood stove removal or certifications, burn permit programs, declaration of burn days or burn bans based on local weather and air quality conditions, and Smoke Management Programs for large-scale controlled burns.
Topic links to other pages:
State and Local Smoke Information
Smoke Complaints
EPA Smoke Information
Agricultural Burning
Prescribed and Wildland Fires
Managed Forest Burning and Wildfires
Smoke Management
Smoke Management Technical Tools
Smoke Management Programs and Plans in the Northwest
Smoke Management Guidance Documents
Health Effects of Fine Particles and Smoke
Visibility Impairment and Regional Haze from Smoke |
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Point of contact: Steve Body
Email: body.steve@epa.gov
Phone Number:
Last Updated: 07/30/2004 01:54:37 PM
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