History of California Clean Air Issues

Clean air is not a new issue to California. Regulations focused on the transportation industry in general, and the limousine industry in particular, began in the 1980's. First, the California Air Resources board with a new vehicle mandate of 10% of new vehicles sold in California by 1995, must be electric vehicles. Electric vehicles were not available in 1995. The Board revised the mandate and ultimately dropped the requirement.

In 2000, the South Coast Air Quality Management District promulgated rules which required the operators with 15 or more vehicles transporting passengers to and from airports within the South Coast jurisdiction must be clean burning or alternative fueled vehicles. The SCAQMD did not actively enforce the rule as it relates to limousines.

In 2000, San Francisco Airport adopted a "Clean Vehicle Policy" which requires taxis, limos, shuttle vans and buses to be clean vehicles by 2012.

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Call To Action From The GCLA

This being one of the many issues that can have a great impact on your ability to do business in California the GCLA feels that it is very important to UNITE the SFO Operators, California, and National Operators. There are 1,500 permitted operators and there are less than 20 GCLA member operators in the Bay Area.

Our first challenge is to inform and motivate many of the 1,500 operators to participate in the negotiation process with the SFO and the Clean Vehicle Policy mandate. In order to do this the GCLA is holding a Town Hall Meeting in San Francisco to accomplish the following objectives:

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