Air Research
EPA Funds Research to Improve Air Quality, Protect Health
EPA awarded almost $2M to academic institutions for research on processes to further improve air quality in the U.S. Read the news release.
Read the Latest EPA Science Matters Newsletter
EPA air research has led to significant and lasting impacts in the form of cleaner air and healthier communities. Read all about it in the latest EPA Science Matters newsletter.
EPA Study: Ozone Exposure May Pose Heart Risk
A new EPA study shows that ground level ozone exposure may be associated with risk factors for the heart. Previously, ozone was thought to only impact the lungs. Read the press release. 
The My Air, My Health HHS/EPA Challenge
- The Challenge seeks problem solvers to create personal sensor systems measuring air pollution and related physiological responses. Submission Deadline Oct. 5, 2012. Visit the website to learn more.
EPA's air research provides the critical science to develop and implement outdoor air regulations under the Clean Air Act and puts new tools and information in the hands of air quality managers and regulators to protect the air we breathe.
Health and Air Quality
Research has linked regulated air pollutants such as ozone and particulate matter (PM), to lung and heart disease and other health problems.
Health Assessment Document for Diesel Engine Exhaust
Particulate Matter Research
Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter
Assessment for Carbon Monoxide
Ecosystems and Air Quality
National air quality standards are designed to protect both human and ecosystem health.
Linking Air Quality to Ecosystem Exposure (NERL)
Science Matters: Trees and Air Pollution
Models, Databases and Tools for Air Quality
Researchers provide sophisticated models and tools that are widely used to manage air quality across the nation.
Exposure Research
Community Multiscale Air Quality model
Air Research Models and Methods
EPA Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) 3.0 Model
Health and Environmental Research Online Database (HERO)
Learn more about modesl, databases, and
tools for air quality...
Air Monitoring Methods and Measurements
Air quality managers and researchers use monitoring methods to measure air pollutants that support a variety of air quality management and science objectives.
Improving Air Quality Monitoring with Satellites
Indoor Air Quality
Combustion/Emissions Control
Source/Emissions Characterization
Source Apportionment and Exposure Assessment
Energy and Air Quality
The energy choices we make as a society clearly influence air quality and climate change.
Biofuels and the Environment Report
Energy System-Environment
Integrated Air Quality Climate Impacts
Cookstove Research
Climate Change and Air Quality
Air quality and climate change are intrinsically linked.
Climate Change Research
Future Ozone Concentrations and Air Quality Assessment
Black Carbon Research
Air Quality Assessment
Sustainable Solutions for Air Quality
Using the principles of green chemistry design and engineering, sustainable solutions are being developed to reduce or eliminate the release of toxic air pollutants by industry.
Sustainability Research Strategies
Transforming Paper Mill Pollution into Commercial Resource
Grants and Funding for Air Quality
EPA provides grants and funding to the nation's leading researchers to improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues.
Clean Air Research Centers
Air Quality and Toxics Grants
Health Effects Institute
MESA Air Study