Posted on 06/10/2005 4:12:04 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Roused by a recent report that Californians' health is endangered as much from polluted air indoors as outdoors, a state lawmaker said Thursday she will push to give the state Air Resources Board the power to clean up indoor air.
Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, said the report, which was produced by air board staff members at the request of the Legislature, was "even more damning than most people thought it would be."
Lieber's comments came in an interview Thursday after a hearing on the subject by the Assembly Select Committee on Air and Water Quality, of which she is a member.
The second-term legislator pledged to pick up where former state Assemblyman Fred Keeley, D-Santa Cruz, left off. Three years ago, Keeley introduced a bill to give the air board authority to regulate indoor air. The board is known internationally for its aggressive actions to clean up outdoor air, mostly through stringent limits on motor-vehicle emissions.
Industry opposition led Keeley to revise his indoor-air bill only to require the air board to produce a study on the issue. That bill passed.
Completed in March, the study concludes that indoor air pollution - caused by numerous sources including cigarette smoke, radon, improperly vented gas-burning appliances, mold and even some devices sold as air purifiers - costs the state at least $45 billion a year in lost worker productivity, medical care and premature deaths.
The 333-page report was based upon hundreds of scientific studies and found, among other things, that the risk of cancer from breathing toxic air contaminants, such as formaldehyde, is comparable to the risk of cancer from breathing particles of diesel exhaust outside.
Despite the hazard, no one agency in the state or federal government has the authority to regulate indoor air.
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Farting indoors will now be illegal. It is already illegal outside in CA.
Excellent! Kali runs even faster towards the abyss.
Kalifornia needs a part-time legislature and needss to cut their salaries by 75%. Let 'em play golf...I'll buy the beer...SSZ
"she will push to give the state Air Resources Board the power to clean up indoor air..."
Imagine that... By passing a law, we can give someone power to clean up the air. Well, at least we'll know who to blame if it remains polluted!
What a meth lab owners going to say and do! OH THE DRAMA!!
addendum: all pot smokers will have to toke outdoors? Why, of course, "it's legal". Got the picture. Thanks for posting this article.
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