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Bay Area Air Quality Management District

Index Bay Area Air Quality Management District

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) is a public agency that regulates the stationary sources of air pollution in the nine counties of California's San Francisco Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma. [1]

33 relations: Association of Bay Area Governments, Bay Area Council, California Air Resources Board, California Environmental Quality Act, California Northern Railroad, Carbon tax, Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program, Cindy Chavez, Climate change litigation and the California Environmental Quality Act, Electrification of Caltrain, Estuary Crossing Shuttle, Ford GoBike, Frank H. Ogawa, Government of San Francisco, IT Corporation, Jake McGoldrick, John Gioia, Ken Yeager, List of AC Transit routes, List of bicycle-sharing systems, List of California air districts, List of Santa Clara VTA bus routes, Michael Yaki, Olfaction, Oyster Point Marina/Park, Sam Chapman, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco–Oakland–Hayward, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, Spare the Air program, Toxic hotspot, 2008 California wildfires, 350 Bay Area.

Association of Bay Area Governments

The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is a regional planning agency incorporating various local governments in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

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Bay Area Council

The Bay Area Council is a regional, CEO-led business and economic policy association in San Francisco, founded in 1945, and dedicated to growing the San Francisco Bay Area economy and solving the region's most difficult challenges.

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California Air Resources Board

The California Air Resources Board (CARB or ARB) is the "clean air agency" in the government of California.

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California Environmental Quality Act

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is a California statute passed in 1970, shortly after the United States federal government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection.

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California Northern Railroad

| | | The California Northern Railroad is one of several Class III short-line railroad companies owned by Genesee & Wyoming, Inc. It operates over Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) tracks (now Union Pacific Railroad) under a long-term lease.

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Carbon tax

A carbon tax is a tax levied on the carbon content of fuels.

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Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program

The Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program (Carl Moyer Program) is a State of California engine retrofit and replacement program implemented through the cooperative efforts of local air districts such as the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) and the California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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Cindy Chavez

Cindy Chavez (born April 7, 1964) is an American politician, who serves as a Santa Clara County Supervisor representing close to 400,000 residents in Downtown, East, and South San Jose.

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Climate change litigation and the California Environmental Quality Act

Litigation related to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become increasingly common in federal and state courts.

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Electrification of Caltrain

The Caltrain Modernization Program (CalMod) is a $1.9 billion project that will add a positive train control (PTC) system and electrify the main line of the U.S. commuter railroad Caltrain, which serves cities in the San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley, as well as transition from its current diesel-electric locomotive powered trains to electric multiple units (EMU).

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Estuary Crossing Shuttle

Estuary Crossing Shuttle was a free bus service in Alameda County, California linking BART with the West End neighborhood of the City of Alameda.

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Ford GoBike

Ford GoBike is a regional public bicycle sharing system in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

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Frank H. Ogawa

Frank Hirao Ogawa (May 17, 1917 – July 13, 1994) was a civil rights leader and the first Japanese American to serve on the Oakland City Council, of which he was a member from 1966 until his death in 1994.

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Government of San Francisco

The government of the City and County of San Francisco utilizes the "strong mayor" form of mayoral/council government, composed of the Mayor, Board of Supervisors, several elected officers, and numerous other entities.

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IT Corporation

IT Corporation was a United States industrial company whose principal business was the disposal of industrial hazardous waste.

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Jake McGoldrick

Jake McGoldrick is a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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John Gioia

John Gioia (pronounced: Joy-a) is an American politician.

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Ken Yeager

Ken Yeager (born December 12, 1952) is an American politician serving on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, representing District 4.

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List of AC Transit routes

AC Transit operates 155 bus lines throughout the East Bay, including two FLEX lines and two Broadway Shuttle lines.

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List of bicycle-sharing systems

This is a list of bicycle-sharing systems, both docked and dockless.

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List of California air districts

In 1947, the State of California enacted the Air Pollution Control Act that authorized the creation of Air Pollution Control Districts (APCD) or Air Quality Management Districts (AQMD) in every county of the State.

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List of Santa Clara VTA bus routes

The following is a list of Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus routes.

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Michael Yaki

Michael Yaki (born 1961) is a San Francisco attorney/consultant/political analyst, running his own consulting firm and currently serving as a Commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights, succeeding Christopher Edley, Jr. in February 2005.

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Olfaction

Olfaction is a chemoreception that forms the sense of smell.

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Oyster Point Marina/Park

Oyster Point Marina/Park is a 408-berth public marina and park located in the city of South San Francisco, California on the western shoreline of San Francisco Bay.

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Sam Chapman

Samuel Blake Chapman (April 11, 1916 – December 22, 2006) was an American two-sport athletic star who played as a center fielder in Major League Baseball, spending nearly his entire career with the Philadelphia Athletics (1938–1941, 1945–1951).

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco–Oakland–Hayward, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area

San Francisco Metropolitan Area officially known as the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area is a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) within the San Francisco Bay Area, which includes a number of its core cities and counties.

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Spare the Air program

Spare the Air is a program established by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District in 1991 to combat air pollution during the summer in the San Francisco Bay Area, the season when clear skies, hot temperatures, lighter winds, and a strong temperature inversion combine and trap air pollutants near the ground.

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Toxic hotspot

Toxic hotspots are locations where emissions from specific sources such as water or air pollution may expose local populations to elevated health risks, such as cancer.

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2008 California wildfires

The 2008 California wildfire season was one of the most devastating since the turn of the 21st Century.

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350 Bay Area

350 Bay Area is a San Francisco Bay Area regional grassroots climate action advocacy 501c4 non-profit organization started in 2012.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Air_Quality_Management_District

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