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On May 24, when you vote on the  new rule to
reduce air pollution from California's construction equipment,
you will be deciding if California can lead the nation, as this
rule is the first  of its kind in the nation, and it could not
come at a better time.

Construction equipment is a major source of diesel
pollution in the state, producing many tons of particulate matter
smog-forming Nitrogen Oxides. 

Children are especially vulnerable to the damage caused by
particulate matter
and Nitrogen Oxides, because their lungs are still developing.
Respiratory health and the damage to it, caused by particulate
matter and Nitrogen Oxides, results in tens of thousands of
premature
deaths in the U.S. from heart and lung disease annually.
Particulate matter
and smog-forming Nitrogen Oxides needlessly increase hospital
admissions, emergency room visits, absences from school and
decreased productivity from workers who are harmed. 
This new rule will prevent as many as 4,000 premature deaths, many
of them children’s daeths and save $18 to $26 billion in health
care spending.

This rule will help clean up some of the most polluted air in the
country and the most polluted areas of the state, the Los
Angeles/Long Beach air basin and the San Joaquin Valley.By 2020,
it will prevent 48 tons per day of Nitrogen Oxides and 5 tons per
day of particulate air pollution from entering our air.