Bay Area Needs Smog Check II

from "Public Policy Update", Breathe Easy news magazine, Fall 2002/Winter 2003

The San Francisco Bay Area was the only major metropolitan area in the state that was not part of the Smog Check II program, an enhanced vehicle inspection program designed to reduce auto emissions. Assembly Bill 2637 (Cardoza, D-Merced) requires the Bay Area to adopt Smog Check II. The American Lung Association of California, along with Lung Associations in the Bay Area, Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley, worked hard to support the bill because Smog Check II is a long overdue step toward improving air quality in the Bay Area and surrounding regions.

Motor vehicle exhaust accounts for nearly 60 percent of air pollution and studies show that air pollution created in the Bay Area is blown east into other areas.