Cal/EPA's Tuttle Highlights Environmental Benefits at the Tehachapi Wind Fair

For Immediate Release (C-18-96)
Contact: Communications Office (916) 324-9670
May 20, 1996

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SACRAMENTO -- Highlighting the importance of non-fossil fuel energy technologies to improving air quality, Cal/EPA Deputy Secretary Crawford M. Tuttle gave remarks at the annual Tehachapi Wind Fair on Saturday.

"The production and use of energy has the largest impact on air quality of any human activity. Whether that energy is the fossil fuels burned to produce electricity or the gasoline and diesel used to power our vehicles, we must continue our efforts to find technologies which reduce the environmental impacts of combustion or better yet, advance technologies such as windmills which avoid combustion altogether," Tuttle said.

Tuttle appeared at the Wind Fair to recognize the outstanding progress which has been achieved by California's world leading wind energy industry. Currently 1.2 percent of the state's electricity is produced by wind energy, representing enough electricity to power the city of San Francisco. The wind energy industry is part of California's $18 billion environmental technology industry which produces technologies needed to improve California's own environment and are increasingly being exported to other states and around the world.

"Electric vehicles using pollution-free wind energy have the potential to eliminate all emissions from a significant portion of our transportation system. California's environment can only benefit from the continued advancement of both of these key technologies," Tuttle concluded.

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