California Construction Trucking Association (CCTA)

That all their regulatory efforts have reduced pollution here in California by 99%!

CARB’s Mary Nicholas admitted in a letter dated November 23, 2011 to Rep. Darrell Issa that the agency (CARB), “has reduced smog-forming pollution emissions by over 99 percent.” So why is there such ongoing Draconian regulations, academic propaganda and NGO (NRDC, GP, EDF) lies about the quality of the air we breathe today, if all of this environmental regulations and costs is to eliminate the last one percent. Are Hank and I the only ones that find these claims odd and something that the media and general public are not incensed about?

These quotes below were taken directly from CARB Chairman, Mrs. Mary Nichols letter to Rep. Darrell Issa chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who has been looking into an agreement on fuel mileage between EPA and several light and heavy vehicle manufacturers. Dated November 23, page 2.

“This achievement is not only one of the greatest accomplishments of U.S. energy policy or environmental policy in recent decades, but also an exemplar of good government involving unprecedented agency coordination at the federal level. This accomplishment is by no means a single recent development but is, in fact, the culmination of decades of progress in addressing vehicle emissions that spans several administrations and has received bipartisan backing.”

When ARB first issued its greenhouse gas standards for vehicles in 2004, we were building on over 50 years of successful state regulation of passenger vehicles that has reduced smog-forming pollution emissions by over 99 percent. Moreover, the vast majority of the standards pioneered in California were eventually adopted at the federal level – a history of state-federal cooperation we are happy to continue today.”