CLASH LOOMS OVER BILL RESTRICTING MOBILE-TO-STATIONARY AIR CREDITS

Major industry organizations and air officials are clashing with environmentalists over a bill that aims to protect low-income areas with air quality problems by restricting the use of mobile source trading credits to offset stationary source pollution. Opponents of the measure claim the bill will cripple efforts by state officials to craft multiple-credit trading schemes critical to allowing continued industrial and economic growth in California. But supporters chide some air and oil industry officials as mischaracterizing the bill to ensure...