Our Nation's Air - Status and Trends through 2010 - Download Graphics

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Number of people (in millions) living in counties with air quality concentrations above the level of the primary (health-based) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in 2010.

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Distribution of national total emissions estimates by source category for specific pollutants, 2010.

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Comparison of growth measures and emissions, 1990-2010.

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Comparison of national levels of the six common pollutants to the most recent national ambient air quality standards, 1990-2010.  National levels are averages across all monitors with complete data for the time period.

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Air quality trends in nonattainment areas exceeding the ozone and particle pollution standards in 2010.

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Number of days on which AQI values were greater than 100 during 2002-2010 in selected cities.

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National 8-hour ozone air quality trends, 2001-2010 (average of annual fourth highest daily maximum 8-hour concentrations in ppm).

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Ozone concentrations in ppm, 2010 (fourth highest daily maximum 8-hour concentration).

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Trends in average summertime daily maximum 8-hour concentrations in ppm (May-September), before and after adjusting for weather nationally, in western states, and in eastern states, (and the location of rural and urban monitoring sites used in the averages).

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National PM_2.5 air quality trends, 2001-2010 (annual average concentration and 98th percentile of 24-hour concentration in µg/m³).

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Annual average and 24-hour (98th percentile of 24-hour concentrations) PM_2.5 concentrations in µg/m³, 2010.

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Trends in annual, cool-month (October-April) and warm-month (May-September) average PM_2.5 concentrations in µg/m³ (before and after adjusting for weather), and the location of urban monitoring sites used in the average.

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National PM₁₀ air quality trend, 2001-2010 (second maximum 24-hour concentrations in µg/m³).

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PM₁₀ concentrations in µg/m³, 2010 (second maximum 24-hour concentration).

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National lead air quality trend, 2001-2010 (maximum 3-month average in µg/m³).

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Lead concentrations in µg/m³, 2010 (maximum 3-month averages).

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National NO₂ air quality trend, 2001-2010 (annual average in ppm).

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National CO air quality trend, 2001-2010 (second maximum 8-hour average in ppm).

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National SO₂ air quality trend, 2001-2010 (annual average in ppm).

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NO₂ concentrations in ppb, 2010 (98th percentile in daily 1-hr maximum).

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SO₂ concentrations in ppb, 2010 (99th percentile of daily 1-hr maximum).

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Estimated census-tract cancer risk from the 2005 National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA2005).  Darker colors show greater cancer risk associated with toxic air pollutants.

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National Air Toxics Trends Sites (NATTS).

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Distribution of changes in ambient concentrations at U.S. toxic air pollutant monitoring sites, 2003-2010 (percent change in annual average concentrations).

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Domestic greenhouse gas emissions in teragrams of carbon dioxide equivalents (TgCO2 eq), 1990-2009.  

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Estimates of global average radiative forcing (W/m2 resulting from changes in key climate-related air pollutants between the pre-industrial era and 2005.