By Paul Roger - Mecury News

In a move that could reshape the American automobile industry, California regulators Thursday are expected to approve sweeping new rules requiring that 15 percent of new cars sold in California by 2025 run on electricity, hydrogen or other systems producing little or no smog.

The regulations by the California Air Resources Board, dubbed the "advanced clean car rules," would start in 2018, ramping up each year and ultimately resulting in 1.4 million "zero emission" vehicles on California roads by 2025. Today there are only about 10,000 such vehicles in the state.

"This is a really large step. It's transformational," said Tom Cackette, an engineer and chief deputy director of the air board. "Ten years from now the market is going to look quite a bit different."

Reporting Extended to March 30, 2012

By Lewis & Associated for CIAQC Board

Over the last four weeks CIAQC has focused much attention on CARB and the On-Road Truck Regulation. On December 16th CIAQC meet with CARB staff in Sacramento to discuss several significant implementation issues for the Truck & Bus Regulation and testify at the CARB Board Hearing---the staff met with us prior to our Board testimony in the “CIAQC Office” in the cafeteria. This followed the December 6, 2011 CIAQC letter to Governor Brown outlining the detailed concerns including retrofit filter safety, and the numerous problems with the ability of fleets to register their trucks using CARB’s on-line reporting system along with and CARB’s lack of outreach on the implementation of the regulation and tight deadlines that were emerging.

Air Resources Board California Environmental Protection Agency January 24, 2008 PPT Presentation to the Board
"This study found that the employees had a lower overall death rate than the general population, as would be expected in a working population."

Read entire report here

http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/health/healthup/jan08.pdf

Background

Occupational and population-based studies have related exposure to fine particulate air pollution, and specifically particulate matter from vehicle exhausts, to cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer.

Objectives

We have established a large retrospective cohort to assess mortality in the unionized U.S. trucking industry. To provide insight into mortality patterns associated with job-specific exposures, we examined rates of cause-specific mortality compared with the general U.S. population.