Pollution
Working paper
Clean air action: applications of citizen science to identify and address air pollution emission sources
This paper aims to improve understanding of how citizen science initiatives improve understanding on the methodologies and outcomes of citizen science initiatives that are focused on sources of air pollution.
Strategy
NSW clean air strategy: 2021–2030
This strategy document details planned actions by the New South Wales government to manage community exposure to pollution, both day-to-day, and during events such as bushfires, with the aim to improve public health.
Report
The limits of livability
This report warns that worldwide, governments must act to prepare public health systems for the impacts to the public from recurring air pollution episodes from fires caused by the climate crisis, deforestation practices and poor land management.
Report
Lethal power: how coal is killing people in Australia
The damaging effects of air pollution from burning coal on the lungs of both children and adults is described and quantified in this report. Asthma, chronic lung disease and their effects on other organ systems are all higher with exposure to particulate air pollution. The data in this report are compelling, and build on the...
Policy
Compliance and enforcement: draft policy
This draft policy covers the Victorian EPA’s compliance and enforcement approaches for supporting and directing compliance as well as the EPA’s principles and criteria for decision-making, including the consideration of risk, and behaviour and motivations for compliance.