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Learn about the Air District's development process for Regulation 12, Rule 16, which would place a numeric cap on greenhouse gas emissions at refineries.

The Air District has opened the application period for year 19 of the Carl Moyer grant program, which reduces ozone-forming and toxic air emissions from older, heavy-polluting diesel engines.  

Due to heavy smoke moving into the Bay Area from the extensive Camp Fire in Butte County, the Air District is extending the Winter Spare the Air Alert through Friday, November 16.

The Air District is issuing an air quality advisory for wildfire smoke for Sunday, June 16, due to smoke from the Point Fire in northern Sonoma County.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s 2018-19 Winter Spare the Air season ended February 28, with 16 Winter Spare the Air Alerts called from November through February.

The Air District is extending the Spare the Air Alert for wildfire smoke through Wednesday, September 16. This will be the 29th and 30th consecutive Spare the Air Alert called.

As a reminder, due to heavy smoke in the Bay Area from the extensive Camp Fire in Butte County, the Air District has extended the Winter Spare the Air Alert through Friday, November 16.

The Air District's Board of Directors has voted to set the stage for Regulation 12, Rule 16 to cap greenhouse gas emissions from the region’s five refineries, creating a model for the state and nation to follow.

The Air District is issuing the third Spare the Air Alert of 2022 for smog for Tuesday, August 16. The Bay Area will also continue to have smoke impacts from the Six Rivers Lightning Complex Fire in Humboldt and Trinity counties. Air quality is forecast to be unhealthy tomorrow, Tuesday, August 16. The combination of wildfire smoke with hot inland temperatures and vehicle exhaust is expected to cause unhealthy smog, or ozone, accumulation in the Bay Area. Smoke from Northern California wildfires is expected to continue to impact the region creating hazy and smoky skies.   

The Air District is hosting a community summit on Saturday, February 16, from 10 AM–1:30 PM, at the City of Richmond Recreation Complex located at 3230 Macdonald Avenue in Richmond, to develop an air monitoring plan for the surrounding community. 

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is issuing a Spare the Air Alert for wildfire smoke for Sunday, June 16, and Monday, June 17. Air quality is forecast to be unhealthy today and tomorrow due to smoke from the Point Fire in northern Sonoma County.

The Air District is inviting Bay Area residents to provide input on two new draft regulations. Regulation 11, Rule 18 would reduce health risk to local residents from toxic air contaminants emitted by facilities in the Bay Area, and Regulation 12, Rule 16 sets limits on facility-wide petroleum refining emissions.

Feb 22, 2016 ... Bay Area Air Quality Management District 939 Ellis Street San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 771-6000 Proposed MAJOR FACILITY REVIEW PERMIT Issued To: Martinez Cogen Limited ...

Feb 22, 2016 ... NOTICE INVITING WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENTS NOTICE is hereby given that the Executive Officer/Air Pollution Control Officer of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District invites interested persons ...

Jun 27, 2016 ... Bay Area Air Quality Management District 375 Beale Street, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94105 (415) 771-6000 Final MAJOR FACILITY REVIEW PERMIT Issued to: Commercial Pattern, Inc.

Jun 27, 2016 ... June 16, 2016 Ms. Deborah Jordan Director, Air Division United States Environmental Protection Agency 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Dear Ms. Jordan: This ...

Feb 22, 2016 ... February 16, 2016 Ms. Deborah Jordan Director, Air Division United States Environmental Protection Agency 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Dear Ms. Jordan: ...

Feb 22, 2016 ... Bay Area Air Quality Management District 939 Ellis Street San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 771-6000 Permit Evaluation and Statement of Basis for RENEWAL of MAJOR FACILITY REVIEW ...