Calif. poised to vote on new 'clean car' regs

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? The head of California's air quality board is calling proposed rules that would require automakers to build less-polluting cars and trucks by 2025 a historic move for a cleaner environment.

A vote on the rules will come at a meeting that began Thursday of the California Air Resources Board.

Board Chairman Mary Nichols says she hopes the rules to require that vehicles emit about three-quarters less smog-producing pollutants will "lead the nation and the world."

The new standards, which also include big cuts in greenhouse gas pollutants, would begin with new cars sold in 2015, and get increasingly more stringent until 2025.

Associated Press

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