California to introduce CO2 labels for new cars
Sat 24 February 2007
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California is preparing to become the first state in the US to include stickers showing greenhouse gas emissions on new cars. The stickers are expected to be approved by the California Air Resources Board this summer and should start appearing on 2009 model cars and light trucks.
A spokesman for CARB said that the labels will include some kind of estimate for annual carbon dioxide emissions and may be integrated into window stickers required by the Environmental Protection Agency that show fuel economy and exhaust-pollution estimates.
A spokesman for the US Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers said: "The new greenhouse-gas stickers will be helpful for those consumers who are concerned about that issue."
Around 12% of all US new vehicles are made in California, which is the most heavily populated state in the US. The UK and other countries in Europe already include labels on new cars to give consumers information about their emissions of carbon dioxide.
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