State of the Airshed Executive Summary

We take over 20,000 breaths of air each day; over the course of a year, we breathe approximately 8 million times. Although each of those breaths ought to include only clean air, unfortunately that’s not always the case. Many factors – from where we live to the day-to-day weather conditions – influence what’s in the air we depend on. The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency is a special-purpose, regional government agency charted by Washington State law in 1967 to keep our air clean. Our jurisdiction covers King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish counties – home to more than 4.3 million people, over half of the state’s population. A lot has happened since we last released a Strategic Plan in 2014. Not only has the Puget Sound region grown dramatically, but we’ve all experienced substantial changes and challenges over the past eight years including policy changes, technology developments, a social and racial justice movement, smoke from wildfires, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2014 strategic plan laid out a mission for the Agency to “work to protect public health, improve neighborhood air quality, and reduce our region’s contribution to climate change.” The plan also set three overarching goals with specific objectives and targets to direct the Agency’s work. This report will cover each of these goals, objectives, and targets in detail and describe why and how we met or didn’t meet each target. Each goal and its objectives and targets are summarized here. https://pscleanair.gov/DocumentCenter/View/445/2014-to-2020-Strategic-Plan-PDF?bidId= https://pscleanair.gov/DocumentCenter/View/445/2014-to-2020-Strategic-Plan-PDF?bidId= State of the Airshed Annual air pollution-related lost…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]