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Clean Cars Act

On February 15th, senate overwhelmingly voted for the Clean Cars Act to go into efect in Maryland.

The bill is a state-based policy that addresses global warming pollution, as well as pollution that causes cancer, smog, and the dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay. The act strengthens the standards for emissions that form smog and other health-damaging pollution, adds carbon dioxide to the list of pollutants that are covered by the vehicle emission standards, and requires a percentage of new cars that are sold each year to be advanced technology vehicles such as hyrbids.

Eleven other states have already adapted the Clean Cars Program.