Clean Air Idaho

Air Quality Initiatives in Idaho

 
  
Clean air is essential to Idaho's quality of life. This web site offers an overview of various efforts underway to protect and improve air quality in Idaho. Content is provided by a number of public and private environmental organizations with an interest in air quality. Its purpose is to inform and inspire Idahoans to participate in clean air initiatives.
 

Treasure the Valley's Air
A coalition of local partners working together to implement community-based projects to improve and protect air quality in the Treasure Valley.

Links to
Air Quality
Resources

Ada County/
Treasure Valley

Air Quality Plans, Reports, and Related Documents

 
   

Treasure Valley Air Quality Council

Group of community, industry, and environmental leaders appointed by Governor Kempthorne to draft and implement a Treasure Valley Air Quality Plan.

   

Clean Air Zone Idaho

A statewide program aimed at reducing children's exposure to school bus diesel exhaust by discouraging idling of buses and other vehicles and encouraging use of alternative fuels in school buses.

 

Clean Cities Coalition

A local effort led by the City of Boise, DEQ, Department of Water Resources' Idaho Energy Division, the General Services Administration, and others to secure designation of the Treasure Valley as a Clean Cities Coalition, which will enahnce development of a strong alternative fuel infrastructure across the Valley.

 
 

Agricultural Diesel Engine Retrofitting Project

A pilot project to control air pollution from agricultural diesel engines in the Treasure Valley by retrofitting the engines with diesel oxidation catalysts.

    

Idaho B20 Biodiesel Program

A transition device designed to provide a public demonstration of  the use of B20 for both diesel fleet and individual diesel vehicle users, leading to the development of a B20 consumer market in Idaho.  


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Last Updated: June 29, 2006