Government Responsibilities Federal Government The Air Quality Section of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts seeks to protect and improve urban air quality through national action to reduce emissions of major air pollutants. The Department's focus is on those sectors that make the greatest contributions to adverse air quality as well as those pollutants that continue to pose threats to the environment and human health. For info please visit this website. National action means the implementation of relevant national standards and plans and a common approach to monitoring air quality, research to inform air quality policy and community education on air quality issues. State Government (NSW) The government realise that air pollution comes from many sources so they have many plans. Their main plan is called Action for Air which is a 25 year air quality management plan created in 1998. This strategy taken by the NSW government covers all the sources of air pollution. It is reviewed every three years, the last in 2007. For more info please visit the NSW State of the Environment Report. | 
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