As the new home of RIPIRG's environmental work, Environment Rhode Island can be contacted regarding this news release.
Both
houses of the New Jersey state legislature voted on January 12, 2004 to adopt strict
California's strict auto emission standards. New Jersey is now poised to join
the growing number of Northeast states who have opted to enforce California's
strict auto emission standards, which reduce air pollution and increase consumer
access to super low and zero emission vehicles. Massachusetts, New York and
Vermont have already adopted the standard, which is also being considered in
Rhode Island and Connecticut.
It is a big step forward for New Jersey to join our regional allies in reducing
air pollution.
RIPIRG is working in Rhode
Island with a coalition of public health, child advocates and environmental
groups to bring the California standards to Rhode Island. Governor Carcieri
has the administrative ability to act, due to the fact that air throughout the
state fails to meet national air quality standards. The California standard
has the potential to reduce toxic air emissions and smog forming pollution by
up to 30 percent.
None of the air in Rhode
Island meets minimum federal air quality standards, and that is a problem we
need to fix. If we are going to reduce air pollution in Rhode Island we need
to clean up our cars.
RIPIRG is a non-profit,
non partisan public interest advocacy organization with over 1,000 members throughout
the state.
