UC Davis and UC Berkeley experts to draft Californian emissions policy

DAVIS, California, USA, February 12, 2007 Governor Schwarzenegger has announced that transportation policy experts at UC Davis and UC Berkeley in California will draft the new air-quality standard to reduce carbon emissions from transportation fuels.

In a news release, the governor’s office said the new standard would be “the world’s first greenhouse gas standard for transportation fuels” and said it would “spark research in alternatives to oil, boost clean technology industry in California and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

“By 2020 the standard will reduce carbon intensity of California’s passenger vehicle fuels by at least 10%,” the news release adds. “The first-of-its-kind standard will support AB 32 emissions targets as part of California’s overall strategy to fight global warming.”

The four experts include: Dan Sperling, director of UC Davis’ Institute of Transportation Studies; Bryan Jenkins, leader of the Bioenergy Research Group at UC Davis; Joan Ogden, a UC Davis professor of environmental science and policy, and co-director of the ITS-Davis Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program; and Alex Farrell, an assistant professor in the UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group and director of UC Berkeley’s Joint Center for Transportation Sustainability Research.

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