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Clean CarsWhat's NewAccording 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. How You Can HelpRight 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. BackgroundTransportation 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:
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Clean-Cars_Factsheet.pdf