The Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Air Management enforcement program improves and protects the quality of our air by ensuring that the goals of our Connecticut's Abatement of Air Pollution Regulations can be met.
Did you know that if you can see haze on the horizen, then you are probably being exposed to fine particulate pollution? Haze is visible air pollution.
Air Quality Regulations include requirements to reduce air pollution emissions from stationary, area and mobile sources to meet State and Federal laws and goals. State Implementation Plans are adopted to comply with the Clean Air Act to describe the department's actions to attain and maintain federal standards for criteria pollutants.
State Implementation Plans (SIPs) are adopted to comply with the Clean Air Act to describe the department's actions to attain and maintain federal standards for criteria pollutants. SIPs need to be revised from time to time in response to changes in federal laws and regulations.