TagPuget Sound Clean Air Agency(11)
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2025-12-01Puget Sound Region Final Comprehensive Climate Action Plan
A comprehensive climate action plan for the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Metropolitan Statistical Area covering King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties. The plan provides greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies across six sectors: built environment, transportation, waste, natural lands, refrigerants, and consumption. -
2025-12-01Puget Sound Region Final Comprehensive Climate Action Plan
A comprehensive climate action plan for the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Metropolitan Statistical Area covering King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties. The plan provides greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies across six sectors: built environment, transportation, waste, natural lands, refrigerants, and consumption. -
PSCAA Air Quality Monitor Site Sunset Park 2024-02-05
Sunset Park King County DNRP service yard. TSI Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer, which will collect routine ultrafine particle counts in many size bins. Also hourly black carbon and total fine particle concentrations at this site. Google Maps -
Ultrafine particle monitoring (Seattle/Chinatown and Sea-Tac Airport) HDC2 11 12 42
Community Projects are a recent innovation in the State Legislature. Essentially, House members sponsor their own grants which are funded as capital projects. In this case, $340,000 is being allocated for two ultrafine particle monitors to be handed off to Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA). One will be in Chinatown, at the confluence of -
2022-08-13
*Where’s my Clair Patterson?
There is this form of air pollution, which you probably have not heard of, called ultrafine particulates (UFPs). Though they are invisible, they seem to have some particularly nasty effects on human health. UFPs have not been well-studied, they are unregulated, and yet they are prevalent in commercial jet engine emissions. But this is not -
The Sea-Tac Airport Annual Air Quality Monitoring Proposal (STAAQM)
This post describes a proposal we have put forward to Washington State legislators Senator Karen Keiser (33rd) and Representative Jesse Johnson (30th). In one sentence, we want an annual report of all key aviation-related emissions for every neighborhood affected by the operations from Sea-Tac Airport. We refer to this proposal as Sea-Tac Airport Annual Air -
A letter to Tina Orwall: Air Quality Monitor Proposal
Hi Rep. Orwall, Thank you for your time on the phone today. BACKGROUND As I said, I have a lot of experience as a consultant with the environmental monitoring and mitigation process of conventional businesses (ie. where NEPA is governed by EPA.) It has always been annoying to me that the airport (being governed by -
Puget Sound Clean Air Advisory Council
Our Advisory Council provides guidance and input on agency programs and regulations. The Advisory Council is made up of representatives of large and small businesses, suburban cities, area sources, education, transportation, health, tribal nations, fire chiefs, environmental justice, local ports, the environmental community, and the Public-at-Large. Meetings Agendas & Minutes Advisory Council Members Advisory council -
Puget Sound Air Toxics Evaluation Final Report, October 2003
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency conducted this screening study to identify chemicals and emission sources that pose the greatest potential health risks to citizens in the Puget Sound region. We also hope to better characterize the potential health risks to our three million residents from a group of air contaminants referred to as air -
Addressing Community Health Concerns Around Sea-Tac Airport 2000
Response to the question, “Is it possible to monitor jet engine exhaust emissions or to model their path using data on prevailing winds and takeoff patterns?” Prepared by Washington State Department of Health Washington State Department of Ecology Puget Sound Clean Air Agency In consultation with Public Health – Seattle & King County Sea-Tac Airport