BACKERS SCRAMBLE TO SAVE BILL TRANSFERRING SMOG CHECK TO ARB

Backers of a bill shifting Smog Check program administration to the air board are scrambling to save the measure in the face of Schwarzenegger Administration opposition, and may consider significant amendments, according to sources. Environmentalists consider the measure critical to vastly improving the effectiveness of the vehicle inspection and maintenance program, which has struggled to reduce pollution to even half of what program administrators had predicted. The bill, AB 386 (Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View), is pending in the Senate...