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Indoor AirPlus
The Indoor AirPlus Program is a partnership among EPA, builders, raters, utilities, and public health and indoor environmental organizations to improve indoor air in new homes green homes.
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Indoor AirPlus Partnership
List of contractor and builder EPA resources related to Indoor airPLUS.
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Affordable Housing with Indoor AirPlus
Indoor AirPlus partners play an important role by developing income-eligible housing typically designated for lower-income households.
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Updates to the Oklahoma State Implementation Plan for New Source Review Permitting and General SIP Provisions
Updates to the Oklahoma State Implementation Plan for New Source Review Permitting and General SIP Provisions submitted between 2002 and 2025
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Webinar: Navigating Mature and Emerging IAQ Technologies in Your Schools for COVID and Beyond
This webinar demonstrates how to navigate emerging and mature technologies for ventilation, filtration, and air cleaning, to find science- and evidence-based options that fit into an overall IAQ management plan.
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Webinar: You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure: Monitoring IAQ in Schools for Improved Health
Improve IAQ, reduce risk of COVID-19 transmission, optimize school building energy performance, implement ventilation best practices and building design guidelines - mechanical and natural ventilation, filtration, in-room air cleaners, germicidal UV (UVGI)
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Webinar: Asthma-Friendly Schools: Strategies to Reduce the Risk of COVID-19 Transmission and Improve Indoor Air Quality
Learn strategies that can improve indoor air quality while reducing health risks such as asthma and virus transmission
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Webinar: Rooted in Research: Reducing Virus Transmission, Improving Ventilation and Promoting Healthy IAQ in Schools
Learn how proper IAQ management can help reduce health risks – including virus transmission
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Webinar: Cleaning for Health - Proactive Plans to Effectively Clean and Promote Healthy IAQ in Schools
View the August 6, 2020, webinar, "Cleaning for Health: Proactive Plans to Effectively Clean and Promote Healthy IAQ in Schools"
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Webinar: Let's Clear the Air - Using Ventilation Practices to Promote Healthy IAQ in Schools
View the July 30, 2020, webinar, "Let's Clear the Air: Using Ventilation Practices to Promote Healthy IAQ in Schools
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Webinar: What Schools Need to Know: Practices and Principles for Healthy IAQ and Reducing the Spread of Viruses
View the August 13, 2020, webinar: "What Schools Need to Know: Practices and Principles for Healthy IAQ and Reducing the Spread of Viruses."
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Webinar: Meeting Current School Health Challenges and Beyond: New Tools to Assess and Address IAQ Health and Safety
Discover strategies to improve HVAC performance and reduce aerosol exposure in schools. Learn risk reduction strategies to promote effective exposure controls (face coverings, outside air, filtration, and portable air cleaners) for a safe return to school.
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Webinar: Indoor Air Quality in K-12 Schools: Addressing the Concept of Layered Risk Amidst COVID-19
Learn how proper IAQ management can help reduce health risks – including virus transmission
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Webinar: Ventilation and Virus Mitigation in Schools - Creating a Game Plan to Reduce COVID-19 Risk and Make Lasting Improvements to IAQ
Learn how proper IAQ management can help reduce health risks – including virus transmission
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Webinar: Solutions and Resources to Address COVID-19 in Schools: Establishing Lasting Improvements to Ventilation and IAQ
Improve IAQ, reduce risk of COVID-19 transmission, optimize school building energy performance, implement ventilation best practices and building design guidelines - mechanical and natural ventilation, filtration, in-room air cleaners, germicidal UV (UVGI)
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Ventilation Checklist from Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools
Ventilation IAQ Checklist
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Why should schools take indoor air quality seriously?
The quality of the indoor air can either impede or assist a school in meeting its core mission -- educating students. Failure to prevent or quickly resolve problems can: Increase the potential for short-term and long-term health problems like asthma, the number one cause of student absenteeism Increase absenteeism of…
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Evidence from Scientific Literature about Improved Academic Performance
Studies that measure school conditions using an index of several variables consistently show improved scores on standardized tests as school conditions improve. On the other hand, schools with major unmet repair needs and fewer custodial workers per square
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Moisture Control, Part of Indoor Air Quality Design Tools for Schools
Uncontrolled moisture indoors can cause major damage to the building structure, as well as to furnishings and to finish materials like floors, walls, and ceilings.
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EPA Participation in the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action
EPA participates in the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action, which generally takes place in October.