California Air Resources Board
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California Air Resources Board is the "clean air agency" of the state of California in the United States. Established originally as the Air Resources Board in 1967, it is known for setting extremely stringent standards for air quality, resulting in the manufacture of special gasoline for automobiles in the state.
Its stated goals are to:
- Attain and maintain healthy air quality.
- Conduct research into the causes of and solutions to air pollution.
- Systematically attack the serious problem caused by motor vehicles, which are the major causes of air pollution in the State.
Half of the appointees are experts in professional and science fields such as medicine, chemistry, physics, meteorology, engineering, business, and law. Others represent the pollution control agencies of other regional areas - Los Angeles region, San Francisco Bay area, San Diego, and the San Joaquin Valley, and one for other districts.
California AB 1493 is the successor bill to AB 1058, was signed into law on July 22, 2002 by Governor Gray Davis and mandates that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) develop and implement greenhouse gas limits for vehicles beginning in model year 2009. States with similar limits are : California, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine and New Jersey.
See also
- Greenhouse gas
- Emission standards
- Timeline of major US environmental and occupational health regulation
- Vehicle acronyms and abbreviations.
External links
- http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/cc.htm
- [CARB about 1493].
- [CARB regulations] (PDF).
- [AB 32 Solutions For Global Warming].
- [AB 1493 (Pavley) Briefing Package] (PDF) : Greenhouse gas emissions.
- [AB 1493 INFORMATIONAL HEARING] (word file )
- [AB 1493 from governor website] and [from calcleancars.org] (PDF)
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