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US EPA, CARB, South Coast and SJV Air Districts, CalEPA Sign Joint Agreement to Reduce Pollution, GHG Emissions
11 July 2008
At the California Emerging Clean Air Technology Forum in Merced, Calif., federal, state and local agencies formally joined forces to develop and implement technologies needed for California to meet federal health-based air quality standards, to reduce public exposure to air toxics and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with the California Air Resources Board (ARB), the South Coast and San Joaquin Valley Air Districts and the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), signed a memorandum of agreement to commit to developing and testing new sustainable technologies to accelerate progress in meeting current and future national air quality standards.
We all have the same goal—to improve air quality. This forum affords us a great opportunity to come together to discuss individual efforts and viable technologies that will collectively help us achieve our goal.
—Barry Wallerstein, executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District
Despite having adopted stringent air quality controls, the South Coast and San Joaquin Valley Air Districts continue to have the most difficult PM2.5 and 8-hour ozone attainment tasks in the country. Dramatic controls for every motor vehicle on the road today as well as for all industrial and commercial operations in these areas would still not be sufficient to meet PM and ozone standards. Attaining the health-based air quality standards will require using technologies that produce near-zero emissions but have not yet been developed or commercialized.
Some of these clean air technologies were discussed at the forum, and include: hydraulic and plug-in hybrids, electric vehicles and fuel-cells, solar-distributed energy and Selective Catalytic Reduction for locomotive and marine sources.
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Posted by: gr | July 11, 2008 at 08:31 AM
What is wrong with this announcement?
You have government bureaucrats from a half dozen different governmental bureaucracies getting together to "liason", "coordinate", "discuss", developing new technologies.
Every single blessed governmental attendee comes from an organization that has never built a damn thing.
They are great at "going to meetings", "liasoning", "discussing", yada, yada, yada.
Nary a one will EVER actually...DESIGN and
BUILD.. a new technology
Posted by: stas peterson | July 11, 2008 at 11:38 AM
SJV gets most of their smog blown in from elsewhere. The discussion should be to stop the pollution from where it is blown in to that valley. SJV is mainly agricultural with few cars. The air is clean on a windy day blowing towards the coast so that the city smog stays out of their valley.
Posted by: sjc | July 12, 2008 at 01:45 AM
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Anyone who lived in Southern Cal in the seventies or early eighties knows these organizations and associated AQMDs have done a good job reducing the cumulative number of smog days. It used to be possible to see the San Bernadino Mts surrounding LA (50 mi distance) for a short two - three week window in January, February. These days the mountains are visible all but a few summer days.
More to be done during transit to electrics.