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Mobile Sources
Mobile Sources include on-road vehicles (such as cars, trucks and buses) and nonroad equipment (such as boats, airplanes, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and other agricultural and construction equipment). Bus and car lines around schools, gas-operated equipment used to maintain your yard, and gasoline and oil spills on the roads can all contribute significant pollution to the air.
Running vehicles and equipment generate air pollution when they are idling. In fact, any more than 10 seconds of idling uses more fuel than is required to restart the engine for most vehicles.
Mobile Source emissions contain carbon monoxide (CO), particulate matter (PM), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), which are also known as Hydrocarbons. They also greatly contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, there are more than 200 million vehicles driving on U.S. highways, and they contribute 77 percent of total carbon monoxide (CO) and 45 percent of nitrogen oxides (NOX) in our air.
All documents linked below are in pdf format.
- Alternative Fuel Vehicles 1
- Carpool/Vanpool 2
- Clean Cities Program 2
- Connectivity for Multi Modal Transit 2
- Diesel Fleet Emission Reduction Program 2
- Employee Commute Options-Baseline Survey 1
- Engine Idling Control 1
- Green Fleet Policies 1
- Lexington County Anti-Idling Policy 3
- Pervious Surfaces 1
- Tax Free Commuter Benefits 2
- Truckstop Electrification 2
- 1 Catawba Regional Council of Governments
- 2 Sustainable Environment for the Quality of Life (SEQL)
- 3 Lexington County (Public Works/Stormwater)
For more information please contact the Bureau of Air Quality at (803) 898-4123 or by email.