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    Air Quality History

    Metadata Updated: November 27, 2025

    This dataset contains quality assured and DOEE-certified air quality data collected from the District’s five air monitoring network sites. The dataset covers a three-year period and includes hourly concentration data points from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s criteria pollutants, air toxics, and speciation. It also includes hourly surface meteorology data points. The District of Columbia is providing this data for a rolling 3-year period when data become available from the EPA. For complete history of data, visit the EPA Air Quality System API at aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_api.html

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date November 27, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date November 27, 2025
    Publisher Department of Energy and Environment
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=515f2c8ff3534302a34bf47f6902ac0d&sublayer=77
    Data First Published 2021-12-15T16:15:14.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-11-24T00:00:00.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 12e7b64f-ecfa-4e12-9bb0-afc33fa443ad
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::air-quality-history
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.0185,38.8148,-76.9707,38.9689
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 7a0be699501deb0d41734f945550bd920d42a04aa69dc34cd8973c407c0c0389
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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