Crisis at the Pump
Our state is facing a major crisis.
Come April 1st anywhere from 6000 to 8000 gas stations could be forced to close if they do not meet a new California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandate that requires small station owners to install new enhanced vapor recovery (EVR) nozzles to capture 98% of the vapor emissions instead of the current 95%.
Should this happen it will be devastating to California’s urban and minority communities.
That’s why myself and a Bipartisan group of Legislators are calling on CARB and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to extend the deadline for compliance by one year to April 1, 2010.
Ron Calderon
March 27, 2009