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# Couple takes on the clean air cause
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/couple-takes-on-the-clean-air-cause/
- Published: 2003-02-04T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T01:29:30.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

A Santa Monica couple has invited some 100 friends and neighbors to an “action group’’ on Feb. 9 to produce a mass mailing urging state officials to require auto manufacturers to produce cleaner cars.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has been steadily weakening its zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandates and just three weeks ago, the only remaining automaker to produce an electric vehicle for sale to individuals abandoned its EV program. CARB is meeting on Feb. 27-28 to review its ZEV mandates once again.

“This is a time-sensitive opportunity for us to effect positive change in important state regulations that affect the air we breathe,” said Paul Scott, who will be hosting the action group with his wife, Zan Dubin Scott. “CARB members must stop caving in to auto industry lobbyists. We want the board to know that Californians won’t stand for it.”

The Scotts expect some 100 concerned citizens from throughout Los Angeles County to attend the gathering. The entire Santa Monica City Council has been invited as well. Several activist-guests will be offering their electric vehicles for test drives. All will be crafting letters to CARB members and various state senate and assembly representatives.

The Scott’s action group will begin at 5 p.m. Test drives of electric vehicles will begin at 4 p.m.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 4, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/020403.pdf?ref=smdp.com)