Green Police are found in major cities (video). The Green Police Super Bowl Sunday ad and the joke is that they can come after you for violations. A few green police type commercials aired during the 2010 Super Bowl on Sunday. The Audi sponsored commercial can be seen below.
The concept that there are Green Police in the US isn’t a joke. Several large cities around the country have Green Police task forces; they are helping to crack down on city emissions.
The Green Police is according to Wikipedia:
It is assembled as the active arm of political debates amongst policy holders in the fight against climate change. Also, it is seen by agencies as some of the first real world action in the United States since the discussion in Copenhagen.
In the UK, the Green Police, based in Warrington, Cheshire, have the authority to call on the Environmental Agency's national network of hundreds of pollution inspectors, many of whom will soon be trained in CO2 monitoring. The Green Police will also be able to demand energy bills from utilities without having to inform the companies that they are being monitored. If that's not enough, the green police will also publish an annual league table ranking companies by their performance in cutting emissions. The intent is to "shame" companies into better energy efficiency.
According to Yahoo, New York City’s has a Green Team Police of twenty officers in the Department of Environmental Conservation. The Green Police can write tickets, enforce environmental regulations, and pull over cars that do not comply with emission standards. They can also inspect food vendors.
The state of Utah does not have a Green Police task force. However, there is a Land and Environment division in Utah government that oversees air, land and water environmental issues.
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