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newsrel -- ARB Chairman Mary Nichols applauds Senator Boxer's bill

Posted: 21 May 2008 11:48:57
Please consider the following Air Resources Board press release
offering ARB Chairman, Mary Nichols' position on Senator Boxer's
bill aimed at the Pavley law waiver request.  You can review the
release here: http://www.arb.ca.gov/newsrel/nr052108.htm .
Thank You
Dimitri Stanich
ARB/PIO 

Release 08-43
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 21, 2008
	  	  	
Stanley Young
(916) 322-2990
www.arb.ca.gov

ARB Chairman Mary Nichols applauds Senator Boxer's bill

New bill gives additional weight to request for waiver

SACRAMENTO - Mary Nichols, Chairman of the California Air
Resources Board, issued the following statement about Senator
Boxer's new bill that would reverse the EPA decision denying
California's request to be allowed to implement its regulations
minimizing greenhouse gas emissions from autos. This follows
revelations from a report issued by the house of representatives
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by
Representative Henry Waxman, that after communications with the
White House, Administrator Johnson reversed his original
decision -- supported fully by USEPA staff -- to grant
California a waiver to enforce its clean car law .

"We applaud the fact that Senator Boxer's bill to overturn
administrator Johnson's illegal denial of California's waiver
request made it out of the committee. This is a significant step
forward but only one skirmish in the battle to secure our rights
and protect the environment. We will continue to fight for the
waiver in the courts, we will press our case with the public,
and we will not stop demanding that the federal administration's
obey the law. Fourteen states representing almost half the
vehicles in the nation and tens of millions of consumers need
clean cars now that reduce greenhouse gases and save money at
the pump. "


--The Air Resources Board is a department of the California
Environmental Protection Agency. ARB's mission is to promote and
protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through
effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and
considering effects on the economy. The ARB oversees all air
pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain
health based air quality standards.

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