About Us

The Basics

How is Florida’s air quality control program organized?

• Organizational Chart

Who can I contact for more information or to report an air pollution concern?

• District Air Program Contacts
• Local Air Program Contacts

What is the Division of Air Resource Management's mission?

Our mission is to protect, conserve, and restore the air resources of the state with the primary goal of protecting human health. We accomplish our mission by implementing the federal Clean Air Act and appropriate Florida Statutes, monitoring the state’s air quality, administering Florida’s air pollution control programs to provide more protection with less process, promoting pollution prevention, and coordinating our work with the efforts of other local, state, and federal air quality programs.

There are two bureaus and one office within the division:

• Bureau of Air Regulation (BAR)
• Bureau of Air Monitoring and Mobile Sources (BAMMS)
• Office of Policy Analysis and Program Management (OPAPM)

Air is an essential natural resource and one we cannot afford to take for granted. Clean air is important to our health, our environment, and our economy. Poor air quality can adversely affect business, property, recreation, and tourism, which are the backbone of Florida's progress.

Because it is usually colorless and odorless, we fail to realize that many everyday activities can pollute this vital resource.

Today, we face new challenges in protecting and maintaining good air quality. In addition to the traditional industrial and automotive air pollutants, we now also worry about acid rain, toxic air pollutants, greenhouse gases, global warming, regional haze and the depletion of the earth's upper-level ozone layer which protects us from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation.

Traditionally environmental agencies have applied various strategies to protect air quality. Some of those strategies have involved compliance assurance, compliance assistance, and rule development. More recently, in recognition of the fact that protecting our environment is a personal, corporate and governmental responsibility, environmental protection strategies have been expanded to include and emphasize pollution prevention and public awareness.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Air Resource Management has implemented numerous initiatives including both traditional and non-traditional strategies and has dedicated significant resources to compliance assistance, environmental education and outreach to further the concept of personal responsibility.

We are dedicated in presenting useful and important information associated with Florida's ambient air and pollution prevention programs and tools. We encourage you to provide us with feedback about this web site and on information you would like to see added. Thank you for visiting and we hope you return soon!