Arizona goes for clean cars

Yesterday Arizona became the 14th state to adopt California's clean car emission standards despite fierce opposition from the auto industry (which fights just about everything that helps make cars cleaner and more fuel efficient).

Our Arizona chapter and the Center For Biological Diversity released a statement on the success. From that statement:

At least 13 other states have adopted Clean Car Standards, including Arizona’s neighbors, California and New Mexico. Under the Clean Car Rule, each automobile manufacturer is required to demonstrate that its fleet of passenger cars and light-duty trucks delivered for sale in Arizona on or after January 1, 2011, meets an average emissions standard for greenhouse gases. It will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by about 32 million metric tons from 2012 to 2020 and will also reduce pollutants that contribute to ground-level ozone formation, a major issue in Arizona. Implementation of the rule is expected to reduce 5,505 tons of carbon monoxide, 892 tons of hydrocarbons, and 1,436 tons of oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) in 2018.

Interested in learning more about California's stronger-than-federal car emission standards? The ones that were denied by the EPA in December? You can learn all you ever wanted to know about it on our Clean Car Campaign site.