Guide gives navigation through air quality issues

While the overall air quality in the Baltimore region has improved over the years, the area still leads the state in cases of asthma, particularly in children.

Daily air quality forecasts for up to the next three days give asthma sufferers a short-term planning guide in the form of a color-coded Air Quality Action Guide. “We?ve been doing color codes since 1995,” said Randy Mosier, board member for Clean Air Partners, an advocacy group of business and government organizations, including the Baltimore Metropolitan Council and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. “It?s worked pretty well for us. We?ve been gauging the public?s response and awareness through surveys … and we?ve had increasingly very good responses to that.”