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Serves residents of multi-family buildings most impacted by traffic air pollution.

Learn about the Air District's Title V Program, called Major Facility Review, and the facilities subject to these requirements.

View fact sheets containing information about local facilities, including public comments, permits, compliance status, air monitoring results, and more.

The Air District’s Facility Risk Reduction Program focuses on existing facilities that pose the highest health risks  to nearby residents and workers.  This program requires these facilities to implement technically feasible and economically reasonable  risk reduction measures on significant sources of health risk.

Learn about the toxic air contaminants emissions and prioritization scores for permitted facilities within the Bay Area for the latest available year.

Policy Recommendations for Freeway Corridors and Industrial Zones Adjacent to Residential and Sensitive Land Uses

The Air District responded to a fire last night at the Sims Metal Management facility in Richmond. Four Air District inspectors were sent to the scene to provide support to first responders. 

The Air District is requiring a new Residential Fireplace Disclosure for anyone selling or leasing property with a wood-burning device in the nine-county Bay Area region. Beginning June 1, anyone selling or leasing residential property within the Bay Area will be required to disclose the health hazards of wood smoke, as part of the signed disclosure documents in real estate purchase or rental transactions.

The Air District is announcing that its independent Hearing Board has ordered Martin Marietta to get a permit for the company’s sand distribution plant located at Pier 92 in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco. The Hearing Board has also imposed restrictions on the plant’s operations to reduce emissions and protect public health.

At a public hearing today, the Air District released the 2024 Toxic Air Contaminant Program Annual Report, along with a user-friendly new web page that allows members of the public to view toxic emission data from a comprehensive map of permitted facilities in the Bay Area. 

Intermittent visible emissions expected during facility shutdown.

The Air District Board of Directors has adopted amendments to Regulation 9, Rules 4 and 6, to eliminate emissions of nitrogen oxides, or NOx, from residential and commercial natural gas furnaces and water heaters in the Bay Area by requiring new appliances to be zero-NOx. 

Today, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced that Value Plumbing Co., Inc., of Oakley, California, has agreed to pay $310,000 in a settlement filed with the Superior Court of the State of California in the County of Contra Costa for installing uncertified residential water heaters in the Bay Area.

View a list of facilities required under the Air District’s Facility Risk Reduction Program to undergo facility-wide health risk assessments, or HRAs, and, if found to be above a specified risk action level, to implement risk reduction measures on significant sources of health risk.

For eligible facilities, the Air District’s online permitting system gives regulated industry the ability to submit permit applications, renew permits, update facility information, and access permit documents. If your facility is eligible for renewal through the online permitting system, you can follow the instructions for renewing your permit below.

For eligible facilities, the Air District’s online permitting system gives regulated industry the ability to submit permit applications, renew permits, update facility information, and access permit documents. If your facility is eligible for renewal through the online permitting system, you can follow the instructions for renewing your permit below.

Sep 25, 2024 ... Compliance Advisory October 1, 2024 Regulation 6, Rule 3: Wood-Burning Devices (e.g., fireplaces and woodstoves) Guidance for Residential Wood Burning Disclosure Attention: Anyone Selling, ...

Jun 3, 2021 ... Compliance Advisory March 15, 2016 (Updated 1/8/2021) Regulation 6, Rule 3: Wood-Burning Devices Guidance for Residential Fireplace Disclosures Attention: Anyone Selling, Renting or ...