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• Air Quality 101
  • What is Air?
  • What is Air Quality?
  • How Air Quality is Degraded
  • How We Measure Air Quality
  • What We Can Do to Improve Air Quality
  • Clean Air Day
• B.C.'s Air Quality Readings
  • What are Air Quality Readings?
  • What are Indexes and Advisories?
• B.C.'s Plans for Improving Air Quality
  • Airshed Planning in B.C.
  • Clean Transportation
  • Clean Industry
  • Clean Communities
  • Measuring Our Success
  • Research Funding
• Air and Airsheds
  • B.C.'s Airsheds
• Air Quality and Your Health
  • How Air Quality Affects Health
  • Today's Health–Related Air Quality Readings
• Key Topics
  • Smoke and Burning
  • Transportation Emissions
  • Industrial Emissions
  • Visibility
  • Odour
• Air Quality and Climate Change
  • What is Climate Change?
  • How Climate Change Affects Us
  • Air Quality and Climate Change: Weighing the Options
• Assessing Air Quality
  • Air Quality Monitoring
  • Meteorological Monitoring
  • Emissions Inventories
  • Modelling
• Regulatory Framework
  • Legislative Framework
  • Summary of Air Quality Legislation
  • Air Quality Regulations
  • Permits, Approvals and Codes of Practice
  • Guidelines, Criteria and Procedures
  • Objectives and Standards
  • Levels of Government Involved
• Reports
• Glossary
• Resources for the General Public
• Resources for Teachers & Youth
• Resources for Researchers & Scientists
• Resources for Industry
  • Applying for Permits
  • How We Audit Air Quality Monitoring
• Questions, Comments & Complaints

Air Quality Objectives and Standards for British Columbia and Canada
2009

This chart includes the objectives and standards for the major air contaminants, including the new PM_2.5 objectives.
(PDF: 13 KB/1 page)

To guide implementation of these criteria, the ministry has released Guidance on Application of Provincial Air Quality Criteria for PM_2.5 (PDF: 182 KB/186 pages).

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