BELL GARDENS – Governor Brown has signed legislation setting up a groundbreaking program to measure and combat air pollution at the neighborhood level – in the communities most impacted.

The new program requires pollution reductions from mobile and stationary sources with stronger enforcement and timetables. The legislation mandates that large industrial facilities, including oil refineries, in California's most polluted communities upgrade their old, dirty equipment with cleaner, more modern technology by December 2023 at the latest.

The legislation also increases the penalties against polluters that the Legislature has not been able to increase in more than 35 years.

The Governor signed the legislation Wednesday at the Neighborhood Youth Center in Bell Gardens.

Story Date: August 8, 2017