Oregon's Clean Car Standards

Reducing Pollution from New Cars

By adopting “clean car standards” as ten other states have done, Oregon has ensured that all new passenger cars and light-duty trucks sold in our state are clean-burning, climate-friendly and fuel-efficient.

An October 2005 poll found that 67% of Oregonians support the clean car standards.

Clean cars protect our health and curb global warming. Clean car standards reduce dangerous auto emissions that aggravate asthma and contribute to other lung diseases, cancer and heart disease. They will also cut global warming pollution from new cars by an average of 30% by 2016.

Clean cars make our nation more secure. Oil dependence is a matter of national security that also threatens our economy. With clean car standards we’ll put American car manufacturers to work building a whole new generation of cars that sip, rather than guzzle, oil.

Clean cars save car owners money and increase consumer choice. Because clean cars use less fuel, they save drivers money at the gas pump. The other states that have clean car standards have the same SUVs, light trucks and passenger cars that we do, only with better pollution control technology.