{"id":6,"date":"2017-11-13T20:20:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T20:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pamz.org\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2023-02-07T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T16:25:43","slug":"managing-air-quality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pamz.org\/managing-air-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Air Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"
Most days, air quality in the PAMZ region is good. But we do have air quality issues that require management.<\/p>\n
Alberta is part of a national Air Quality Management System<\/a>. It is a collaborative approach to reduce air pollution in Canada, contributing to improved human and environmental health. This system uses the Canadian Ambient Air Quality Objectives (CAAQS)<\/a> as standards for air quality management across the country.<\/p>\n In 2013, Alberta Environment and Parks, in partnership with PAMZ and other regional stakeholders, initiated the Red Deer Fine Particulate Matter Response<\/a> when air quality at the Red Deer Riverside air monitoring station exceeded national standards for fine particulate matter (PM2.5).<\/a> PM2.5<\/div> In 2006, when levels of ozone<\/a> in the region exceeded the Canada Wide Standards (CWS), the predecessor to the CAAQS, PAMZ led the development and implementation of an Ozone Management Plan.<\/a> The plan’s with actions sought to reduce Ozone<\/div> These plans start to address air quality issues in the region. But the CAAQS will become more stringent in coming years and it will be challenging for Alberta’s air zones and Canada as a whole to meet the standards. If we want to keep our air quality good, we can’t take it for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most days, air quality in the PAMZ region is good. But we do have air quality issues that require management. Alberta is part of a national Air Quality Management System. It is a collaborative approach to reduce air pollution in Canada, contributing to improved human and environmental health. This system uses the Canadian Ambient Air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3192,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-managing-quality.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/pamz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/pamz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamz.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}