Despite recent improvements, New York City still falls short of meeting federal air quality standards. That’s why the City continues to pressure the State and Federal governments to reduce harmful emissions – while aggressively targeting the sources the City can control. Transportation is responsible for more than 50% of our local air pollution; as a result, the City is focusing on reducing emissions from on and off-road vehicles. We are also addressing our other major sources of emissions – buildings and power plants – by switching to cleaner fuels for heating and retiring old, polluting plants. Natural solutions such as our effort to plant one million trees will bring us the rest of the way towards the cleanest air of any big city in the country.

  View report for Air Quality
  View PlaNYC chapter on Air Quality

Agencies and offices that provide the most performance measures for this PlaNYC / Sustainability theme:

  Department of Education
  Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
  Department of Transportation