With scores of truckers in the audience, Southern California air regulators voted unanimously Friday to delay rules that would have required cleaner-burning diesel fuel two years before the rest of the country.
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California air regulators unanimously approved the world's most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that contribute to global warming _ a move that could affect car and truck buyers from coast to coast.
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But the new California law that requires state air regulators to start a program by 2009 that would cut emissions from automotive vehicles by a still-unspecified amount may be forcing a national approach.
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Roberts, who has worked for both Cathay Pacific and Dragonair, said he approached China National Aviation Corp . after the subsidiary of China's air regulator applied last spring to form an airline in Hong Kong.
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In these closing years of the 20th century, Perrin, at 67, is like a test pilot in a battle among the auto manufacturers, the air regulators, the entrepreneurs and, of course, the lawyers for each.
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Rules that effectively require electric-car production in California stayed on the books after air regulators deadlocked over how to switch their focus to fuel-cell vehicles that are years away from rolling off the assembly line.
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Air regulators estimate that the rules will add about $ 1, 050 to the average price of a new vehicle-- a cost increase that supporters say would be canceled out by gasoline and operating cost savings.
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China's role in Taiwan-Hong Kong air traffic agreements could help China National Aviation Corp . ( Hong Kong ) Ltd ., a company backed by China's air regulator, hoping to have " China Hong Kong " airline up and running by next spring.
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In one case, the Assembly reluctantly gave final passage to a law tightening inspections of cars, bowing to a deal the governor worked out last winter with federal clean-air regulators as the price of avoiding a cutoff of federal highway and transit aid.
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"Some are interested in exploring giving credits to those who create nuclear power, but the discussion is premature, " said Joe O'Keefe, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, who spoke on behalf of state air regulators involved in the initiative.
