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Average Voter on Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:03:36 PM
The California fuel mandate comes amid similar international efforts, but air regulators say the 27 million Californians who breathe polluted air from the state's ports can't wait for those rules, which are being drafted to take effect in 2015.
"The health of our residents is too important to wait for some other international organization to take action," said Jerry Hill, a member of the California Air Resources Board. "The lives saved by the action we took today are significant."
How many lives did they save? Who knows. But they are sure they did! Besides, researchers in California did prove that dirty air can cause cancer in laboratory rats.