Laptop Battery A bill that environmentalists say would help clean New Jersey's air by requiring car dealers to sell cleaner vehicles is stalled in the Legislature.
The law won't go into full effect until 2009, which gives car dealers five years to adjust. That's ample time. And automakers will receive credit for "clean cars" sold since 1999. For buyers, the changes are expected to add about $ - a small price to pay for cleaner air. In addition to the stricter emission standards, electric hybrids and, by 2012, a small percentage of pure zero emission cars (if the technology is available).
Thinkpad Opponents call the legislation a "feel good" bill without any real benefits to the environment. They also say it could have a chilling effect on New Jersey's economy by reducing car sales and leaving dealers with stock they can't move.
Pringle suggested that the state needs to look at the type of cars driven by residents. "The best way to do this is to adopt the California Clean Cars standards, " he stated. Legislation in support of California Clean Car standards is pending in New Jersey. The legislation would mandate that motor vehicles driven in the state burn fuel at cleaner standards. Pringle says the bill has overwhelming support in both houses, but is being delayed.
Microsoft Environmentalists say putting more cars on the road that rely on clean fuels or burn less gasoline is a vital step to reducing air pollution in a state that has the worst air quality in the nation. The bill would also prod automakers to make more practical low emissions vehicles.
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Laptop Computers The bill would require the New Jersey departments of transportation and environmental protection to adopt California's low emission vehicles regulations. Under those standards, certain percentages of the cars sold must be electric, gasoline-electric hybrids or use alternative fuels such as natural gas.
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Laptop Computer The requirements are tougher than the federal EPA's next-generation auto emissions standards. New York has already adopted California's auto emissions standards and Massachusetts lawmakers are also considering them.
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Desktop Computer The bill failed to pass the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee Thursday with a 6-6 vote, said state Sen. Leonard Lance who is a member of the committee. The bill was also held Thursday by the Assembly Budget and Appropriations Committee for a vote next week.
Notebooks Lance said he believes the legislation has strong support in the Senate and will pass easily when it gets out of the committee. He blamed Democratic senators for bowing to pressure from auto industry lobbyists.
Lenovo He said the auto industry's resistance to innovation is not unusual and, historically is not insurmountable.
Hard Drive "It was thought initially that the American public wouldn't buy vehicles that had seatbelts," Lance said. "Of course now we mandate seatbelts. Seatbelts have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Dirty air kills people as well."
Travelstar The New Jersey Public Interest Research Group has supported the bill by compiling statistics on air pollution in New Jersey. According to NJPIRG's reports, about 88 percent of the toxic chemicals in New Jersey's air come from cars and trucks.
Gateway In Warren County, levels of airborne toxic chemicals such as benzene and styrene produced by vehicle emissions are 890 times greater than the levels deemed acceptable by the EPA. In Hunterdon, those levels are about 1,000 times greater than the federal standards, NJPIRG reports.
Laptop Parts Vehicle emissions also contribute to the formation of ozone, a principle component of smog. The ozone monitoring station Flemington recorded 12 days when ozone levels exceeded the federal health standard.
Software Warren County, which does not have an ozone monitoring station, likely had between 19 and 27 days when the ozone level exceeded standards based on measurements taken in surrounding counties, NJPIRG says.
Hard Drives Those levels of pollution have a devastating effect on children, the elderly and other people susceptible to respiratory ailments, NJPIRG says.
Electronics But the impact of the California emissions standards on New Jersey air pollution would be negligible, said Assemblywoman Connie Myers, R-Hunterdon/Warren.
Canon "If you look at the data for the EPA standards and the data for the California standards, there's just not much difference," she said.
Desktop Pc Myers said the potential for harm to New Jersey's economy outweighs what little benefit there would be. She voted against the bill when it came before the Assembly environment committee in March.
Desktop Computers "No one could answer me on what will happen to these cars if no one can sell them," she said.
Think Pad The main problem with requiring car dealers to sell more zero emissions cars is that there is no demand for them, said Jim Appleton, president of New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers.
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Data Recovery The California emissions standards would require two percent, of all cars sold each year -- about 10,000 in New Jersey -- to be zero emissions vehicles by 2008.
Cisco "Unless there is some real marketplace incentive to get those vehicles off the lot, the air doesn't get any cleaner," Appleton said.
Keyboard Other zero emissions vehicles like compressed natural gas and hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars aren't viable because the infrastructure necessary to fuel them doesn't exist, he said.
Monitor Hybrid vehicles, which pair a small gasoline engine with electric motors to dramatically boost fuel economy appear to be the way of the future, he said.
Desktop Demand for hybrid vehicles marketed by Honda and Toyota already outstrips the supply. DaimlerChrysler and Toyota have plans to introduce hybrid sport utility vehicles soon, but automakers need to do more to meet the demand, Appleton said.
Infosys That would be using the power of the marketplace to clean up the environment, he said.
Refurbished Laptops By Peter Hall
The Express-Times - 6/20/2003
Topic: Air Pollution
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