Many have created special citizen committees to advise them. One key way to help clean up the air in your community is to get involved in the formal air quality programs in your state, county and city. States and counties also review plans for new roads and industry to see if they will add pollution to an existing problem, and use tools like cleaner fuels, smokestack testing and limits on outdoor burning to clean the air. Lung Association volunteers and staff join in those discussions to support cleaner air. States and counties determine the amount of pollution they must cut. States and counties must keep working to clean up their air until they meet EPA standards for air pollution.

Communities Must Clean Up to Meet the Standards We work to make sure that EPA bases these standards on the most current research and not on the misinformation of polluters, who want weak standards so they can continue to pollute the air. The American Lung Association has fought for years to strengthen them. The stronger the standards, the less pollution we breathe. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set limits, called the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, on six outdoor air pollutants. To protect our health, the Clean Air Act tells the U.S. EPA Must Set Standards that Protect Our Health And we advocate in Congress to protect these legal tools from people who want to make them weaker. We fight in the courts to enforce laws designed to make the air cleaner. Environmental Protection Agency to deliver on the promise of the Clean Air Act of healthy air for all Americans by setting and enforcing strong pollution limits. Yet too many cities still have dangerous levels of air pollution. Thanks to that law, cities throughout the nation have cleaner air. The United States adopted the Clean Air Act in 1970 to protect our health from dirty, dangerous air.

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