Californians out car shopping after January 1 of next year will have something new to consider: an automobile’s “environmental performance” rating. This information will be found on new mandatory labels placed on the driver’s side rear window, indicating how much pollution the car produces. Two scores will be available: one for smog-forming pollutants and one for heat-trapping gases, on scales of 1 (the worst rating) to 10. The label is meant to be consumer friendly while being as informative as possible. Daniel Kalb, a policy coordinator for California at the Union of Concerned Scientists, helped draft the original pollution-label law. “We think that of new car buyers in California, a large portion want to get cars that meet their needs and don’t pollute,” he said. “Here’s information to let them do that.”
via NY Times
