On Monday, EPA said the move will help the city as it works with other areas in the region to clear its often thick blanket of smog. The Chinese environmental bureau to provide real time air quality monitoring from the site of the World Expo in Shanghai with the United States Environmental Protection Agency has teamed up with. A city of about 20 million, the online system, dubbed AIR Now International, links technology developed by the EPA with the existing air quality monitoring network in Shanghai, a city of about 20 million.

Jeff Clark of the EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards said “

There's a real power in real-time data. Once you make data available hourly, you can forecast and people start paying attention, People start to buy into concern for air pollution”. Following rains on Sunday, in Beijing which struggled to clear its own smoggy skies for the 2008 Olympics, The U. S Embassy has set up an air monitoring station that sends out hourly tweets on air quality in the capital. The Director of Communications for the American Lung Association of the Southeast Inc said

“I think Bay County residents need to take notice, they don’t need to worry, but they can take steps to improve air quality. The study is done to give communities a sense of how clean their air is and to give some easy tips”.

It may be noted that the national report finds that unhealthy air remains a threat to the lives and health of more that 175 million people and that some cities , had air that was more polluted than in the previous report. Agency spokeswoman Dee Ann Miller wrote in an email “The Department believes that grades given to some Florida counties overstate air quality concerns, While the report shows there may be a few days each year when pollutants such as ground-level ozone and particulate matter reach levels high enough to affect sensitive persons, Florida’s air is among the cleanest in the nation”.