The agency has launched a mobile monitoring program. Specially equipped cars and mobile labs will collect air pollution data from 64 communities throughout California as part of CARB’s Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative.
Edie Chang is CARB’s deputy executive director of planning, freight and toxics. She said this approach is more detailed than California’s existing, stationary air monitors that capture regional air pollution. “It’s not necessarily good at seeing like, there’s a lot of traffic on this street. And so there’s what people might call it like a hotspot in a certain area. And so this will give us the opportunity to really have that sort of street level block-by-block data for communities,” Chang said.
The deployed vehicles will be collecting data over the course of nine months. Chang said the agency expects to release the data publicly by June of next year.
Mass Shooting Suspect Faces Death Penalty
The San Mateo County District Attorney’s office is seeking the death penalty against the man accused in a 2023 mass shooting at two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms.
Chunli Zhao is accused of killing seven farmworkers in San Mateo County’s deadliest mass shooting. He faces seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe announced the decision to pursue the death penalty at a court hearing Tuesday. Because of a gag order in the case, Wagstaffe said he can’t provide details on why he’s seeking the death penalty. It’s the first time he’s done so since he became district attorney in 2011. Capital punishment has becoming increasingly rare since Governor Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions in 2019.
