GreenNews - USA - Proponents clear air over pollution ballot question
TRENTON,NJ,USA -Home News Tribune Online, by LAUREN O. KIDD -28 Oct 2005: -- State officials estimate 130 tons of soot per year could be removed from New Jersey's air over the next decade if voters approve the second statewide question on the ballot this Election Day... Sponsors of a law to retrofit with filters the roughly 31,000 publicly owned diesel vehicles, school buses and transit buses with public contracts in New Jersey came to the Statehouse yesterday to explain the question... The ballot question asks voters if a percent of corporate-business-tax revenue already earmarked for other environmental initiatives can be shifted to the diesel-control program. The program could spend up to $170 million over the next decade... Greg Slavin, an indoor air quality specialist with the Clean Air Co., based in the Fords section of Woodbridge, said the proposed outdoor air-quality program "definitely has its merits" but "they are missing the whole indoor air quality" problem. He said indoor diesel emissions in places such as firehouses and bus garages could also contribute to high cancer rates and other health statistics... Slavin, who supports the ballot question, questioned how well the filters work...
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