What's New
According to Environment Colorado’s report, “A Blueprint for
Action,” adopting the Clean Cars Program is an important early action step to
reduce pollution from vehicles and get the state on the path to meeting our
goals of reducing global warming pollution by 20 percent by 2020.
Take a look at our fact sheet on clean cars or click here to
read the full Blueprint report.
Clean-Cars_Factsheet.pdf
How You Can Help
Right now, the federal government is preventing Colorado and
more than a dozen other states from adopting the Clean Cars Program.
In an historic move, the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) denied the waiver necessary for states to adopt standards that improve
local air quality and address global warming pollution.
Both the House and Senate are considering bills
(Senate bill 2555 and House Resolution 556, “The Right to Clean Vehicles Act”)
that would require the EPA to follow the advice of its own legal and scientific
staff and grant the waiver.
We need you to tell your senators or congressperson to
support this legislation.
Background
Transportation is the second-leading cause of
global warming pollution in Colorado. Adopting the Clean Cars Program is an
important step that we can take now to cut global warming pollution from
Colorado’s cars, trucks and SUVs.
The Clean Cars Program not only reduces smog and
global warming pollution, it saves consumers money at the pump and reduces
our dependence on foreign oil.
Under the Clean Cars Program, new cars sold in
Colorado will have to reduce their smog-forming and global warming pollution.
Within seven years of instituting the standard, new cars will emit an average of
34 percent less global warming pollution. SUVs and light trucks will emit an
average of 25 percent less global warming pollution.
If Colorado adopts the Clean Cars Program soon, then by
2020 Coloradans:
- Will
reduce reliance on foreign oil by 1 billion gallons;
- Save
over $3 billion at the gas pump; and
- Reduce global warming pollution by an amount equal to taking
2 million cars off the road.