Clean Cars, Cleaner Air: How Strong Emission Standards Can Cut Airborne Toxic Pollution in New Jersey

Publication Date: May 2002

Publisher: New Jersey Public Interest Research Group. Law and Policy Center

Author(s): Tony Dutzik

Research Area: Environment

Keywords: public health; air toxics; Clean Cars Program

Type: Report

Coverage: New Jersey

Abstract:

Air pollution--including that from light-duty cars and trucks--poses a major public health threat in New Jersey. 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 Jersey adopted more stringent vehicle emission standards. (New Jersey has since adopted those standards.)