AQMD

“The AQMD also tested emissions from a facility the EPA report blamed for much of the risk in Cerritos and found its current pollution levels were far lower than those the EPA cited.”

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“I've been in AQMD and CARB meetings where the Commissioners blandly ignored the facts, shmoozing on a first-name basis with the representative from "WISPA", Western States Petroleum.”

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“The problem is hidden by CARB only dealing with mobile source pollution, while the Air Quality Management District (AQMD) only deals with stationary pollution.”

Big Oil suborns regulators, killing other industries and our health

“AQMD has shared its expertise with the California Air Resources Board in establishing a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program.”

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“To preserve the market, AQMD halted trading for energy companies but allowed power plants to exceed their cap by paying a mitigation fee to reduce emissions by an amount equal to the level that power plants exceeded their caps.”

The Wall Street Journal: Our Cap and Trade NOx the SOx Off

“In 1990, California's South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) proposed to close and ban all oil refineries (more than a dozen) from the Los Angeles basin.”

The Wall Street Journal: An Inexpensive Cash-for-Clunkers Program That Worked

“Hydrocarbon emissions from SCRAP vehicles were 99 times greater than from a then-new 1990 vehicle, and about 200 or more times greater than new cars today, nearly three times the pollution that Cal/EPA and the AQMD had projected.”

The Wall Street Journal: An Inexpensive Cash-for-Clunkers Program That Worked

“The EPA, Cal/EPA and the AQMD changed the rules to allow mobile source credits against stationary source emissions.”

The Wall Street Journal: An Inexpensive Cash-for-Clunkers Program That Worked

“The state of California acted by establishing an agency, the South Coast Air Quality Management District AQMD to clean up the smog.”

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