Mark Templeton on the Illinois EPA Suspending Vehicle Emissions Tests

Illinois Renewing License Plate Stickers Without Requiring Vehicle Emissions Test

Suzanne Le Mignot
March 2, 2016 CBS Chicago

You may not have to take your car in for an emissions test in order to get your license plate sticker renewed this year. The reason: the state budget.

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Jun still went and got the test done anyway.

“I like to follow the rules,” he said.

Mark Templeton agrees. Templeton is the former director of the Missouri state EPA and the current director of the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School.

“It is really important to improve, the air quality in Cook County,” Templeton said. “If these tests are not done we are not going to know which vehicles are emitting an excessive amount of pollution, so those vehicles won’t be able to get fixed and that will impact our air quality in our area significantly.”