The phrase "air quality division" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific department or section within an organization that focuses on monitoring and managing air quality.
Example: "The air quality division is responsible for implementing regulations to improve the air we breathe."
Alternatives: "air quality department" or "air quality office".
His father, who is retired, worked in New York as an environmental engineer in the air quality division of the Environmental Protection Agency.
He added that the air quality division in the then-Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Detr) saw there was a problem he said – that local air pollution would increase as a result – so a national system of air quality standards was created.
In 2011, members of the city agency's Air Quality Division discovered that one of the plant's main boilers had exceeded the 10 ton-per-year limit for nitrogen oxides, which can cause severe breathing difficulties, by more than 20 tons per year since 2000.
John Liggio, a scientist with the air quality research division of Environment and Climate Change Canada, said the rate at which the oil sands created those particles was unexpected.
"One of the concerns is that as concentrations get higher, it affects not only the people who are most susceptible, but healthy people as well," said Karen Magliano, assistant chief of the air quality planning division of the state's Air Resources Board.
Chet Wayland, the director of the air quality assessment division within the EPA's office of air quality planning and standards, recalled a research conference the agency hosted a few years ago where he met a graduate student who showed him a hand-held, homemade device that measured air pollution.
"There are two stories: an environmental story and an economic story," said Glenn Goldstein, a program director at Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, which links air quality control divisions in eight northeastern states.
Until October, Mr. Holtzman was a principal scientist in the air quality, climate and acoustics division of PCR Services Corporation, an environmental consulting firm in Santa Monica, and now works as a consultant in Los Angeles to government agencies and private real estate developers on air quality and health risk assessments.
"Obviously, this is not acceptable," said Bryce Bird, the director of Utah's Division of Air Quality.
"If a company intentionally wants to falsify records or produce more than they are allowed to produce or burn a lot of hazardous waste, then there is no way we can catch them unless an insider decides to report it," said Robert W. Sirrine, a compliance inspector with the state division of air quality.
"The stay is just that--it's a stay--so we need to be mindful that a potential outcome could be that the courts uphold it," said Glade Sowards, Utah Division of Air Quality's Clean Power Plan coordinator.
