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Sustainable Idaho: DEQ and Air Quality

This episode covers air pollution and wintertime inversions in southeast Idaho. Interviewed is Melissa Gibbs, the air quality manager for the Pocatello regional office of the Department of Environmental Quality.

Guests: 

Melissa Gibbs

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EPA sources:

https://www.epa.gov/ground-level-ozone-pollution/ground-level-ozone-basics

https://www.epa.gov/so2-pollution/sulfur-dioxide-basics#what%20is%20so2

https://www.airnow.gov/aqi/aqi-basics/

Real time DEQ map

https://airquality.deq.idaho.gov/home/map

DEQ AQ forecasts https://www2.deq.idaho.gov/air/AQIPublic/

DEQ woodstove changeout program https://www.deq.idaho.gov/air-quality/smoke-and-burning/woodstove-funding-resources/

The DEQ Air Idaho App can be downloaded from the App Store and Play Store.

Jodie and Nathan are the hosts of Sustainable Idaho for 2023.
EPISODES PRIOR TO JUNE 2021