Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
2015 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management
Learn about key components of their exceptional programs, a significant challenge each faced in growing their program's success and lessons they learned in addressing this challenge. Read more about the 2015 Winners.
Cooperative Agreement Award Announcement
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is funding eight organizations throughout the United States to reduce public exposure to indoor pollutants.
Healthy Indoor Environment Protocols for Home Energy Upgrades
EPA has developed a new voluntary guidance document, Healthy Indoor Environment Protocols for Home Energy Upgrades, that provides a set of best practices for improving indoor air quality in conjunction with energy retrofit work in homes.
Read more about the Protocols.
Download the Protocols (PDF,
48 pp., 4.27 M, about PDF).
Read the EPA Press Release.
Federal Radon Action Plan
Protecting People and Families From Radon: A Federal Action Plan for Saving Lives
Celebrating Success. Looking to the Future.
- [2/4/2013] View accomplishments made by federal agencies to reduce radon risk.
- Read the EPA Press Release
Federal Radon Action Plan
Learn more about the federal government's strategic approach to reduce radon risk in the millions of homes, schools and daycare facilities that it influences. Protecting People and Families from Radon: A Federal Action Plan for Saving Lives.
Federal partners have released a Federal Radon Action Plan Scorecard, a tool designed to display the status of federal activity.
Asthma disproportionately affects minority children, children living below poverty level.
Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities
Please support us in communicating this plan to broaden engagement among federal agencies and non-federal partners and increase its reach and impact. The following resources are available to assist your communication efforts:
- Download the Action Plan one-page fact sheet (PDF) (2 pp., 288 K)
- Read the EPA News Release
- Get a Web button for your website.
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Featured IAQ Series
A View Indoors is a new series of e-articles providing information and tips on common indoor air quality issues where you live, work or play. In this issue, we discuss the problem of using odor as an indication of air quality.
Ten Things You Should Know About Mold
#2 - There is no practical way to eliminate all mold and mold spores in the indoor environment; the way to control indoor mold growth is to control moisture.
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