California has been the leader in clean emissions in the US for some time now, today they made a fairly large announcement about there goal for zero emissions cars. They were going to require that the top 6 auto makers sell hundreds of thousands of zero emissions cars in California by 2014. Zero emissions cars, are either electric or hydrogen fuel cell, this would help make a cleaner fleet. Today they announced that they were dropping that number to only 60,000 by 2014, their reason is that they wanted car makers to make zero emissions cars, but they also wanted them to work on getting the price of them down so they would become more mainstream. This not only effects California, but the 12 others states in the country that have adopted California’s emissions plan. This announcement was seen by environmentalists as California backing down under pressure from the car makers.
Source: CBS
