South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) released a road map for meeting new and more stringent federal clean air standards through dozens of proposed aggressive pollution control measures on sources from consumer products to ocean-going ships. The Draft 2007 Air Quality Management Plan lays out a detailed strategy for meeting the federal fine particulate PM2.5 standard by 2015 and the federal 8-hour ozone standard by 2021.
Proposed control measures in the plan include:
- Modernization of industrial/commercial facilities;
- Further emission reductions from gasoline service stations;
- Emission reductions from wood-burning fireplaces and woodstoves;
- Emission reductions from new or redevelopment projects; and
- Emission reductions and enhanced emissions inspections of mobile sources.