Cleaner Air through Cooperation

Canada - United States

Progress under the Air Quality Agreement - 2003

Table of Contents

• About This Brochure

• Working Together for Cleaner Air

  • Shared Benefits of the Agreement

• Pollutants and their Effects

• The Acid Rain Challenge: Achieving Progress through Committed Action

  • Key Commitments of the Acid Rain Annex
    • SO₂ Emission Reduction Requirements
    • NOx Emission Reduction Requirements
      
      

• Preserving Air Quality for Today and Tomorrow

  • Notifying Neighbors-The Importance of Communication
    

• Key Commitments of the Ozone Annex

  • Emission Reduction Requirements
  • Reporting Requirements
    

• Progress on Ground-Level Ozone

  • Domestic Programs
    

• Other Air Quality Programs

  • Particulate Matter-The Next Challenge
    • Cooperation among the States and Provinces
      
      

• Cooperation on Emission Inventories, Trends, and Mapping

  • Wet Sulfate and Nitrate Deposition in 1990-1994 and 1996-2000

  • AIRNOW Mapping

• Research Efforts on Effects of Air Pollution

• A History of Cooperation

• For More Information
  
  

About this Brochure

This brochure features recent progress made by Canada and the United States under the 1991 Air Quality Agreement and highlights key issues from the 2002 Canada-United States Air Quality Agreement Progress Report. The Agreement's focus is to address the problem of transboundary air pollution, whereby pollutants released at one location can travel long distances, affecting air quality at their sources as well as many miles away. This brochure provides an overview of the 1991 Agreement, followed by key commitments and progress, including air quality programs and scientific cooperation between the two nations. A more complete presentation and discussion of all these areas can be found in the 2002 Progress Report at www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/can_us/canus_links_e.cfm or www.epa.gov/airmarkets/usca/2002report.html.

Note: U.S. spelling is used throughout.

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