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Air Toxics Studies in Region 2
This page provides links to special air toxics-related studies that have been conducted in Region 2 States, largely through grants and cooperative agreements.
Note: Web page locations may change as sites are updated.
St. Croix Special Air Toxics Monitoring Study
- Quality Assurance Project Plan [PDF 310 KB, 31 pp]
- St. Croix Air Toxics Report [PDF 760 KB, 50 pp]
- St. Croix Air Study Fact Sheet [PDF 149 KB, 2 pg]
- Public Meeting Notice [PDF 36 KB, 1 pg] | en Español [PDF 33 KB, 1 pg]
The following projects are listed on EPA's Community Air Assessment and Risk Reduction Strategies website:
- Protecting Communities from Air Toxics (also known as the Camden Waterfront South Air Toxics Pilot Project)
- Newark [Toxic Air] Pollution Prevention Improvement Plan
- Staten Island/New Jersey Urban Air Toxics Assessment Project
- CARE - Oneida County Health Department
- Eliminating Urban Air Toxics and Potentially Bioaccumulative Toxics from Business and Government Operations
- Emission Reduction: partnership with Corning and Syracuse China to reduce lead releases
- Urban Community Air Toxics Monitoring Project, Paterson City, NJ| Final Report [PDF 20 MB, 122 pp] | Project Website
The following projects are listed on EPA's Community-Scale Air Toxics Ambient Monitoring (CSATAM) Projects website:
- Urban Community Air Toxics Monitoring Project, Paterson City, NJ [PDF 20 MB, 122 pp]
- New Jersey DEP - Final Report - Development and Optimization of a Sampling and Analytical Method to Measure Hexavalent Chromium in Ambient Air [PDF 326 KB, 34 pp]
- Tonawanda
- New Jersey Meadowlands Commission - Final Report - Results of Targeted PM2.5, Total Suspended Particles (TSP) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) [PDF 618 KB, 65 pp]
- New York State DEC - Final Report - Establishing an Ambient Mercury Baseline for New York State [PDF 1.3 MB, 6 pp]
- Evaluation of Two Sampling and Analytical Methods for the Measurement of Hexavalent Chromium in Ambient Air Awarded Project Plan [PDF 1.4 MB, 16 pp]
Webinars have been presented for the following studies:
- NJ Meadowlands [PDF 1.7 MB, 35 pp]
- Tonawanda [PDF 4.0 MB, 51 pp]
The following projects are a part of EPA's Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) website (under "Community Profiles"):
- New Jersey: Ironbound Cumulative Impacts Project (ICIP)
- New Jersey: Trenton CARES Green Initiative, Trenton
- Virgin Islands: Coral Bay Watershed Management, St. John (Note: This is not focused on air toxics.)
- New York: Town of Fort Edward
- New York: West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc (WEACT), New York City
- New Jersey: Clean Air Communities, NESCAUM, Camden
- New York: Oneida County Health Department
- New York: Center of Environmental Information, Rochester
State Websites:
- New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Air Toxics Program
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Tonawanda Community Air Quality Study
Air Toxics Risk Prevention and Risk Reduction Programs
Note: The programs below deliver air toxics benefits even where the program is not focused on air toxics.
Nationwide
- EPA's air toxics risk reduction efforts
- EPA's Collision Repair Campaign
- EPA's Design for the Environment (DfE)
