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Electric Drive 805
Coalition
Driving an electric vehicle instead of a gas car reduces
carbon emissions by 75%. Find details on rebates, incentives
and charging on the
Electric Drive 805 website. The Ventura County Air
Pollution Control District is part of the collaborative
effort to provide information for residents, businesses and
governments in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo
counties.
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VCAPCD
Our Mission
To protect public health and agriculture from the adverse
effects of air pollution by identifying air pollution
problems and developing a comprehensive program to achieve
and maintain state and federal air quality standards.
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Forecast and Agricultural Burn Status
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El Rio,
Ojai,
Piru,
Simi Valley,
Thousand Oaks
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Email Fillable Complaint Form to complaints@vcapcd.org.
Call 24-hour message line at
(805) 303-3700.
Call Compliance Division at
(805) 303-3708
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday
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Annual pollution spikes
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Beware
of unhealthy air following July 4 fireworks
The district is warning residents that
dangerous levels of very small particles can be
caused by Fourth of July fireworks. Historic
patterns indicate that areas close to heavy
fireworks use experience unhealthy air pollution
levels.
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Community Air Protection
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Grants
will fund electric school buses and chargers
The Ventura County Air Pollution Control
District has awarded $1.56 million to school
districts in Oxnard and Ventura to replace
diesel engine buses with new zero-emission
electric ones and to install charging stations.
Ocean View School District received funding to
replace one diesel bus with an electric one and
purchase one charging station. Ventura Unified
School District received funding to replace two
diesel buses with two electric ones and purchase
two charging stations.
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Environmental gains
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Ship
speed reduction lowered coastal air pollution
Results from the 2023 Protecting Blue Whales
and Blue Skies vessel speed reduction program
show it reduced coastal California air
pollution, risk to whales and ocean noise.
Participating companies reduced ship speeds off
California, transiting at 10 knots or less in
the San Francisco and Monterey Bay region and
the Southern California region, including
Ventura County.
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Incentive programs
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$4.5M
in grants to reduce ag equipment pollution
The district is distributing $4.57 million to
help replace diesel tractors, loaders and other
equipment on farms, ranches and wholesale
nurseries with lower-emission versions.
Replacement of the 59 pieces of equipment is
projected to reduce emissions annually by 713
metric tons of the greenhouse gas carbon
dioxide, 34 tons of ozone precursors and 2.4
tons of diesel particulate matter.
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