No Change to Ontario Drive Clean I/M Program in 2004

Media reports stating that the Ontario Government is scrapping the Drive Clean I/M program are incorrect, states the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. According to Art Chamberlain, spokesman for Environment Minister Leona Dombrowsky, "There are no plans to remove the Drive Clean program in the immediate future." Chamberlain noted that standards are in fact getting tougher, initially for heavy trucks and buses, with new light-duty standards to follow. "The program will be reviewed in 2006 as originally planned. No change could happen before 2008 at the earliest."