Air Resources Board under heavy scrutiny
In the latest local regional news, the California Air Resources Board is under the gun; they have had a lawsuit filed against them by no less than eleven organizations that represent aftermarket auto parts. A legal suit was filed against the Air Resources Board for their regulation that would extent warranties on some of the aftermarket parts these organizations represent.
The largest part of this suit is a rule that was approved on January 4th, 2008 that extends some of the warranties on these aftermarket emissions parts up to ten years or 120,000 miles; this extension is for all new autos.
In comments from Aaron Lowe of the Automotive Industry Aftermarket Association whose organization is one of the plaintiff’s states that one of their concerns is that by placing these extended warranties the Air Regulations Board is deciding who should and who should not be doing repairs on autos. By the way, if you are in the southern California generally and you are in need of a competent Los Angeles work injury attorney The law offices of Steven Sweat can help you if you need competent los angeles work injury type of attorney, a traumatic brain injury, a Los Angeles spinal cord injury attorney or maybe similiar type of counsel then by all means pass this along. Now back to the news article at hand…….
This statement comes from the issue of the warranties to be extended including auto parts such as catalytic converters and oxygen sensors which would send new auto owners to dealer owned shops to have repairs done on their autos.
According to some of the particular research studies and other types of studies that have been done a warranty extension such as this could cost independent garages and parts suppliers as well as others in this field approximately eight billion dollars a year in lost business from work injury or burn injury, etc.. That is a lot of lost business for one specific industry like that.
The denial from the EPA for
Being angered by this refusal to set their own standards they have asked for an investigation that the EPA administrator acted against recommendations from his technical and legal staff in the matter.
Administrator Stephen L. Johnson’s staff said they will turn over any requested documents having to do with the decision that was made in the request that
Senator Barbara Boxer and Rep. Harry Waxman head a committee to oversee the EPA and did not have the documents needed in time for a meeting that took place on Thursday January 10, 2008 and the EPA administrator’s chair was empty leaving many unanswered questions about the decision that had been made. I guess someone will need an attorney over there.