California Air Resources Board
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California Air Resources Board |
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| State level | State authority |
| founding | 1967 |
| Headquarters | Sacramento |
| Authority management | Mary D. Nichols , Board Chairman |
| Web presence | www.arb.ca.gov |
The California Air Resources Board ( CARB , often just ARB ) is a government commission of the state of California in the United States . The advisory body, which has existed since 1967, is internationally known for its particularly strict legislative proposals on air pollution control .
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The California Air Resources Board (emission control authority of California, literally "California (s) air resources committee"), German also "Air pollution commission of California", the Californian "Clean Air Agency" (literally "clean air authority") was called 1967 under the name Air Resources Board established. It is a commission of experts that is supposed to work out legislative proposals for air pollution control.
The commission is appointed by the governor of the state of California and consists of 11 members, with only the chairman working full-time. Half of this is occupied by specialists from medicine, chemistry, physics, meteorology, engineering, economics and law. The other half represents the air pollution control agencies of the Los Angeles Region , San Francisco Bay Area , San Diego , the San Joaquin Valley and a seat for the other counties.
The given goals are:
- Maintaining and improving healthy air quality
- Commissioning of research on the causes of air pollution and their remediation
- Systematic approach to problematic situations resulting from the high level of automobile motorization, the main cause of air pollution in the state
The CARB has nine main departments:
- Government support
- Implementation control
- Control of mobile sources
- Mobile source tests
- Supervision and laboratory
- Information office
- Planning and technical service
- research
- Stationary sources
Clean Air Act and Zero Emission Mandates
The Commission is known for drawing up particularly far-reaching proposals on air pollution control, a large number of which are also enshrined in law by the legislature. The California legislation of 1990 ( Clean Air Act and Zero Emission Mandate ) stipulated that by 1998 at least two percent and by 2003 ten percent of newly registered cars should be emission-free.
This law forced automobile manufacturers worldwide to develop pollution-free vehicles such as the General Motors EV1 in the USA, Honda EV Plus , Toyota RAV4 electric , Nissan Hypermini , BMW E1 or, until 1996, to develop the A-Class electric from Daimler-Benz AG ready for series production , or the Hotzenblitz mini car . Developed electric cars like the General Motors EV1 were never sold to customers, only leased. After the law was defused and reversed under pressure from the oil and automotive industry, the manufacturers collected the vehicles against the will of the users and almost completely scrapped them. Texaco / Chevron acquired the patents from GM to manufacture the then most modern nickel-metal hydride (NiMh) batteries and restricted their use. The 2006 documentary Who killed the electric car? Deals with the historical development triggered by the CARB legislation . .
The law AB 1493 of 22 July 2002, successor of AB 1058, although sets strict limits on the emission of greenhouse gases from cars, which have to be complied with in 2009 in California, but defused previous arrangements for the introduction of zero emission vehicles (Engl. Zero emission vehicle ). In this context, it was decided on September 24, 2004 that new registrations of cars and small trucks may only be made under strict emission regulations. The automotive industry is also taking legal action against this decision. It is planned that the proportion of emission-free vehicles (ZEV) from 2018 [obsolete] 4.5% by 2025 will gradually increase to 22% of a manufacturer's new vehicles .
States with similar regulations are New York , Massachusetts , Connecticut , Vermont , Rhode Island , Maine, and New Jersey .
In September 2006 the California legislature passed Act AB 32, called the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 , with the aim of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. This is in line with the Kyoto Protocol , which the United States federal government has never ratified.
Web links
- The Air Resources Board website (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Zero-Emission Vehicle Legal and Regulatory Activities: The ZEV Program Timeline . California Air Resources Board. October 14, 2011. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ^ Prospectus of Daimler-Benz AG, 12/1997: The A-Class Electric Vehicle, Powered by the ZEBRA Battery System (PDF), accessed on January 18, 2012
- ↑ CARB 3/18/04, Fact Sheet: 2003 Zero Emission Vehicle Program Changes (PDF; 127 kB), accessed August 7, 2012
- ↑ ARB: ZEV regulation 1962.2 from 2018 , PDF, accessed September 26, 2014