STAPPA/ALAPCO's Clean Air and Climate Protection Software (CACPS) is a Window-based, user-friendly software tool that will significantly expand the capabilities of states and localities to analyze the benefits of various air pollution control scenarios and select and implement those that not only address traditional air pollutants, such as ozone precursors like nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides and particulate matter, but also greenhouse gases (GHGs), which cause global warming.

CACPS can help state and local officials:

• create an inventory and forecast emissions of criteria air pollutants � nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide,  volatile organic compounds and coarse particulate matter � and GHGs,
• evaluate policies to reduce emissions of these pollutants and
  
• prepare emission reduction action plans.
  
  The components of CACPS can be used independently, to evaluate a single measure, or in combination, to develop a comprehensive action plan.

  This software was developed through funding provided by EPA under a cooperative agreement.  EPA's support should not be construed as an endorsement of this software. The impetus behind the development of this tool was to enable state and local officials to better harmonize the reduction of GHGs and air pollution on a voluntary basis and it is not intended to be used for regulatory support.

Register to Download STAPPA/ALAPCO's CACP Software

Download the CACP Software Users' Guide

 Related Documents

• Introduction to the Clean Air and Climate Protection Software (September 23, 2005) � This is a presentation providing a brief overview of the software�s capabilities and should be viewed prior to participating in any web-cast trainings.
   

• Presentation on CACP Software to the National Association of State Energy Officials (February 2005)
   
• Emerging Tools for Assessing Air Pollutant Emission Reductions from Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy (March 3, 2005) -- This report is by the Global Environmental Technology Foundation.  The goal of the project was to identify existing and emerging tools for assessing the impacts of electricity usage on emissions of air pollutants that state air quality officials could use to incorporate energy efficiency and renewable energy in State Implementation Plans.  One of the tools GETF looked at was STAPPA/ALAPCO's Clean Air and Climate Protection Software.  Click here for a presentation GETF made to EPA on the report.
   
• Presentation of Amy Royden (STAPPA/ALAPCO) on STAPPA/ALAPCO's Clean Air and Climate Protection Software (October 29, 2003) -- This presentation was given at STAPPA/ALAPCO's Fall Membership Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
   
• Clean Air and Climate Protection Software Press Conference (April 29, 2003) -- STAPPA and ALAPCO unveiled an innovative software tool to foster clean air decisions that will reduce not only criteria air pollutants, but greenhouse gases (GHGs), as well. The tool is called the Clean Air and Climate Protection Software (CACPS). Click here for a press release on CACPS. Click here for a fact sheet on the software tool. Click here for a Power Point presentation on CACPS.
   

• Presentation on Clean Air and Climate Protection Software (November 21, 2002) -- This is STAPPA/ALAPCO Executive Director Bill Becker's Power Point presentation on STAPPA/ALAPCO's new Clean Air and Climate Protection Software (CAPS). The presentation was made at EPA's Fifth State and Local Climate Change Partners Conference in Annapolis, Maryland, on November 20, 2002.
   

•  PowerPoint Presentations at the STAPPA/ALAPCO Fall 2002 Membership Meeting (October 8, 2002)
  Reducing Greenhouse Gases and Criteria Pollutants: Harmonized Strategies
  - STAPPA/ALAPCO's Software Tool by Ralph Torrie (Torrie Smith Associates)
   

    Questions/Contacts

If you have questions about using the software, contact Amy Royden of STAPPA/ALAPCO at (202) 624-7864 or send an e-mail to 4clnair@4cleanair.org with "CACP Software" in the subject line.

If you are having trouble downloading the software or are experiencing technical problems, contact Jim Yienger or Ryan Bell of ICLEI at (510) 540-8843 or send an e-mail to jyienger@iclei.org or rbell@iclei.org. Be sure to mention that you are a STAPPA/ALAPCO member.