Investments and PM2.5 Standards

Manufacturing Investment & Air Quality

Announced investments in counties exceeding PM2.5 standards

Choose a candidate annual PM2.5 standard. Shaded counties have 2023–2025 design values above it; navy points are the announced manufacturing investments inside them.

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Sources: NAM Manufacturing Investment Tracker (manufacturing investment announcements since January 2025, updated daily); U.S. EPA, PM2.5 Design Values, 2025 (2023–2025 county-maximum annual design values, published June 2026); U.S. Census Bureau cartographic county and 119th-Congress district boundaries; current representatives from the unitedstates/congress-legislators dataset. A county is treated as exceeding a candidate annual standard when its published design value is greater than that level; counties without air quality monitors are treated as attaining. Announcements that could be located only to a state are excluded from the counts.