Top of PageIsn the Air Quality Health Index just another excuse for inaction on clean air?
No, it isn’t. On the contrary, the Air Quality Health Index empowers all of us–Canadian governments, advocates and citizens–to take action. Environment Canada and its partners have developed this health-based forecasting system to communicate in simple, easy-to-understand terms how current weather conditions and levels of air pollution can affect our health. With this information, each of us can then respond in a more timely and effective way to the quality of the air we breathe. As governments, we are looking at ways to clean up our air and reduce the negative impacts pollution can have on our health. For example, the Government of Canada has introduced a comprehensive regulatory framework to reduce by 50% by 2015 air pollution from industrial sources. As advocates, we now have a tool that will help us increase public awareness and encourage community action to clean up our air. As citizens, we can consult the Air Quality Health Index and decide for ourselves how to react, given loc
