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Air Quality Management District and GM Announce Clean Air Partnership

28 August 2000

Air Quality Management District and General Motors Announce Community Clean Air Partnership

    WHO:            South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD)
                    General Motors (GM)

    WHAT:           South Coast Air Quality Management District and General
                    Motors will announce an innovative partnership intended to
                    clean the air and reduce the pollution that directly
                    affects all residents, young people in particular, in the
                    region.

                    Dr. William Burke, chair of the AQMD Governing Board,
                    Dennis Minano, GM vice president, environment & energy,
                    and chief environmental officer, and dozens of students
                    from Glassell Park Elementary School will arrive at the
                    press conference today in a special school bus fitted with
                    advanced particle trap technology that removes
                    particulates from the exhaust.

                    In addition to a large financial contribution GM is making
                    to the AQMD's "Adopt-A-Bus" program -- an initiative that
                    will help to decrease school bus emission levels -- other
                    items that GM is contributing to the Community Clean Air
                    Partnership include:

    --  Hybrid electric transit buses that feature propulsion systems
        developed by GM's Allison Transmission division
    --  Chevy Express/GMC Savana Bi-Fuel vans, which will be donated to South
        Coast region community organizations through the AQMD
    --  Development and installation of air pollution reduction kits for
        passenger locomotives
    --  Hardware, technology and information to AQMD's continuing effort to
        develop a natural gas-powered locomotive

    WHEN:           Monday, August 28, 2000
                    9-10 a.m.

    WHERE:          Glassell Park Elementary School (on playground)
                    2211 West Avenue 30, Los Angeles 90065
                    *Participant and press entrance is from Cazador Street

    COVERAGE
    OPPORTUNITIES:  - Dr. William Burke, chair of the AQMD Governing Board
                    - Dennis Minano, GM vice president, environment & energy,
                      and chief environmental officer
                    - Local students from Glassell Park Elementary School
                    - Representatives from Allison Transmission will also be
                      on-hand to answer questions
                    *B-roll available