SB 999: Air Quality Boards: More experts, better representation

For years, the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District has failed to act aggressively to curb the valley’s ever-worsening air pollution. SB 999 (Machado) would have revised and expanded the membership of the district board by requiring that the valley’s three largest cities — Fresno, Bakersfield, and Stockton — are represented and by adding two new members, a physician and a scientist or engineer, both with expertise in air pollution.