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Air quality expert Sawyer appointed to top slot on California Air Resources Board
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Robert Sawyer
PHOTO COURTESY CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed ME professor Robert Sawyer to chair the California Air Resources Board (CARB), a powerful statewide agency with a staff of more than 1,000 that regulates air pollution from industry, motor vehicles, consumer products and other sources.
The board’s mission is to promote California’s public health and ecological resources by reducing air pollutants, while still taking economic effects into consideration. Recent actions include a ruling, now being legally challenged by the auto industry, that requires automakers to reduce tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases almost 30 percent by 2016.
Sawyer is the Class of 1935 Professor of Energy Emeritus at Berkeley, where he conducted extensive research and taught classes in such areas as air pollutant emissions and control, energy conversion, combustion and fire safety since 1966. He chaired Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group, an interdisciplinary academic unit that conducts graduate teaching and research in environmental issues. He is also visiting professor of energy and environment at University College London, partner of an air pollution consulting company, and former advisor to the World Bank on Mexico City air pollution.
Sawyer, a Democrat from Oakland, previously served on the 11-member CARB board in 1975–76.
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