Clean Cars, Cleaner Air: How Strict Low-Emission and Zero-Emission Vehicle Standards Can Cut Airborne Toxic Pollution in New Hampshire


 

Publication Date: April 2002

Publisher: New Hampshire Public Interest Research Group Education Fund

Author(s): Tony Dutzik

Research Area: Environment

Keywords: Clean Cars Program; air toxics; public health

Type: Report

Abstract:

Air pollution--including that from light-duty cars and trucks--poses a major public health threat in New Hampshire. Clean Cars, Cleaner Air presents the results of emissions modeling that calculates how much emissions of smog-forming and toxic pollutants could be reduced if New Hampshire adopted more stringent vehicle emission standards.