King County air quality & climate change
Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (external link)
Look up air quality forecasts and announcements, learn about air quality priorities, regulations, and permits, get the news on air quality and peruse the library.
King County Global Warming Initiative
Find out how King County is preparing for climate change and ways you can help.
- Emissions inventory reports
- Climate change and water supply - graphs (pdf)
- Understanding and Responding to Climate Change - National Academies (pdf)
- Ron Sims' climate legacy
Transportation and global warming
Learn about activities King County is employing to respond to global warming, including operational changes and pilot projects to adapt to electric vehicles.
Local Governments and Sustainability: Examples from King County, Washington (Acrobat pdf)
Presentation by Bob Burns, deputy director of King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks at the China-US Professional Workshop on Regional Sustainable Development (external link), University of Washington in Seattle.
Clean Air Initiative
Executive Policy to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other significant air pollutants from King County operations and to use King County programs and policies to encourage their reduction from other sources in the region.
Air quality indicators - KingStat
Look up environmental indicators of air quality over time for King County, Washington.
Fire safety burn bans and air quality burn bans
Burn ban announcements and burn permit options.
Ten steps to reduce greenhouse gases today
- Know your "carbon footprint".
- Bus, bike or walk to your errands.
- Change your commute times.
- Make sure your next car is a "clean" one.
- Lighten up!
- Plug in...to the climate action community!
- Buy locally.
- Clean up your house!
- Let your friends, family and public officials know climate change is important to you!
- Change your thinking.
Also see asthma resources such as:
- Green cleaning methods
Cleaning products that are irritant-free, effective, inexpensive and safe for you and the environment, provided by Health - Seattle and King County.