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- initialism US Air Quality Management District
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Examples
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Ortega said a few neighbors complained that the factory smelled, calling the AQMD hotline frequently.
unknown title 2009
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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.
EPA study: 2.2M live in areas where air poses cancer risk 2009
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The EPA, Cal/EPA and the AQMD changed the rules to allow mobile source credits against stationary source emissions.
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AQMD has shared its expertise with the California Air Resources Board in establishing a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program.
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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.
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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 2009
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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.
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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.
Big Oil suborns regulators, killing other industries and our health 2009
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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.
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The state of California acted by establishing an agency, the South Coast Air Quality Management District AQMD to clean up the smog.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995
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