INDOOR AIR QUALITY

Indoor Air Quality: Tools for Schools Consists of an easy to use kit that helps school personnel identify, resolve, and prevent indoor air quality problems. The kit provides a simple to follow checklist, background information, sample memos and policies and a recommended management plan to establish a healthy indoor air environment. The goals are to increase well-being and reduce school absenteeism. more info (for more details & local program info: use pull-down menu above)

News release: Consumer Product Alert:
Take Ozone-Emitting Air Cleaning Devices Off Your Gift List
November 14, 2006

Air Quality News: Indoor Air Quality Standards Needed for Airlines
(Breathe Easy Magazine, Fall 2002/Winter 2003)

News release: American Lung Association Applauds Governor for Signing Indoor Air Pollution Legislation
Will Help Reduce Breathing Problems -- October 1, 2002

Action Alert: Support Clean Indoor Air Quality!
May 8, 2002: Bill to establish new authority for the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to regulate indoor air pollution sources will be heard soon on the Assembly Floor. more information

Air Quality News: Poor Indoor Air Quality Poses Health Risk
(Breathe Easy Magazine, Spring/Summer 2002)

News release: Judge Rules in Favor of Public Health and the Law -- Smoke-free Bar Law found constitutional and fully enforceable -- September 7, 2001

News release: California’s Successful Smoke-Free Bar Law Remains In Effect Despite Orange County Judge’s Ruling -- Law Continues To Protect Employee Health: Statement of the American Lung Association of California, American Cancer Society and American Heart Association -- June 5, 2001

• Program Offers Tools for Improving Indoor Air Quality at Schools
• allergies and asthma
• Radon
• Asbestos
• All about indoor air quality
• Indoor air pollution fact sheet
• Indoor air pollution in the office
• Secondhand smoke and your family 

For further informati

• Home control of on on indoor air quality, go to the following online resources:

• California State Air Resources Board
  (www.arb.ca.gov/research/indoor/indoor.htm)
• Department of Health Services
  (www.cal-iaq.org/)
• Federal Environmental Protection Agency
  (www.epa.gov/iaq/)