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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: March 18, 2013 <br />Resolution - Council <br />Agenda Section:File Number:13-118 CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number:8.M. <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY:City Council <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Not Applicable <br />TITLE:ADOPT: Resolution in Support of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Pollution Under <br />the Clean Air Act (expresses the City's support for enforcement of the federal <br />Clean Air Act) <br />WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency determined that current and future <br />greenhouse gas concentrations endanger public health; and <br />WHEREAS, extreme weather events, most notably heat waves and precipitation <br />extremes, are occurring with increased frequency; in 2011, the U.S. experienced a record 14 <br />weather and climate disasters, including droughts, heat waves, and floods, that cost at least <br />$1 billion each in damages and loss of human lives; and <br />WHEREAS, climate change creates conditions that lead to more destructive storms like <br />2012’s Superstorm Sandy ; and <br />WHEREAS, climate change is affecting food security ; and in 2012, the U.S. <br />Department of Agriculture designated more than half (50.3 percent) of all U.S. counties <br />disaster areas, mainly due to drought; and <br />WHEREAS, for four decades, the Clean Air Act has protected the air we breathe <br />through a proven, comprehensive successful system of pollution control that saves lives and <br />creates economic benefits exceeding its costs by many times; and <br />WHEREAS, with the Clean Air Act, air quality in this country has improved significantly <br />since 1970, despite major growth both in our economy and industrial production; and <br />WHEREAS, between 1970 and 1990, the six main pollutants covered by the Clean Air <br />Act-particulate matter and ground-level ozone (both of which contribute to smog and asthma), <br />carbon monoxide, lead, sulfur and nitrogen oxides (the pollutants that cause acid rain)-were <br />reduced by between 47 percent and 93 percent, and airborne lead was virtually eliminated; <br />and <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 3/13/2013