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According to the article, the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s (“District”) plan to regulate mobile sources has drawn mixed reviews from environmentalists, who fear that redeploying existing staff to a new mobile source division “may divert already limited staffing from important existing district programs.” The District introduced its “Mobile Source Fair Share Initiative,” on January 5, 2007, because the “state and federal governments simply have not acted quickly enough to address the public health crisis precipitated largely by mobile source emissions.” One environmental justice activist agrees that the California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) “are failing” in their responsibilities to regulate mobile sources and commended the District for pursuing a mobile source unit. However, the source asserted that “maintaining sufficient staffing levels for the new division and existing programs could be a priority,” due to concern that staff levels are not at prior levels. The article noted that industry would likely challenge the new mobile source units, because regulation of mobile sources has traditionally been under EPA’s and CARB’s purview. Article taken from “Environmental Justice in the News” for the Week Ending January 19, 2007.
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