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JUNE 20, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has stepped up enforcement of its diesel truck regulations to ensure that only vehicles compliant with California’s stringent anti-pollution laws travel across the U.S. The Truck and Bus regulation also requires heavy duty diesel trucks to be cleaned up. Source: DOT.

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APRIL 27, 2017

EPA is announcing $11 million in competitive grant funding for the Diesel Emissions Reductions Act (DERA) Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program. Eligible diesel vehicles, engines and equipment include: School buses. Marine engines. Class 5 – Class 8 heavy-duty highway vehicles. Locomotive engines.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of grant funding to implement projects aimed at reducing emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. EPA anticipates awarding approximately $44 million in Diesel Emission Reduction Program (DERA) grant funding to eligible applicants.

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MAY 16, 2011

Data collected during a major 2010 state-federal atmospheric research project show that the first-in-the-nation regulation requiring ocean-going vessels to use clean fuel when near the California coast has been extremely effective in reducing sulfur dioxide pollution from ships, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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APRIL 20, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting a project for the hybridization of an existing marine vessel for an award of up to $1,000,000. Staff estimated that direct and secondary diesel PM from harbor craft is responsible for about 90 premature deaths per year. Applications are due to ARB by 28 May 2010.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Tesla is being sued by two dozen California counties for its handling of hazardous material at its Fremont Factory. Yesterday, it was reported that various counties in California were suing Tesla for violations of the State’s health code for “intentional or negligent disposal of hazardous waste.”

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AUGUST 16, 2011

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced a settlement with cargo terminals at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles over diesel emissions from exhaust that requires the terminals to complete projects to reduce their diesel emissions and better notify the public of emissions. Eagle Marine Services, Ltd.;

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

The California Air Resources Board announced that COSCO Container Lines Co., To settle the case, COSCO agreed to pay $965,300 to the Air Pollution Control Fund to support air pollution research, and to comply with all applicable CARB regulations. has paid $965,000 in penalties for violating the Ocean-Going At-Berth Regulation.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. California Air Resources Board (CARB)-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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MARCH 20, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $8 million to communities in 21 states and Puerto Rico to reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines through the agency’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act ( DERA ) program. The full list of projects selected for 2014 DERA funds: California.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has fined two shipping companies for failing to switch from bunker fuel to cleaner, low-sulfur fuel when sailing within 24 miles of the California coast, as required by a state law adopted in 2008. They must also follow all fuel switchover requirements, and maintain accurate records.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Lines has paid $253,300 in penalties to the California Air Resources Board for violating the Ocean-Going Vessel At-Berth Regulation. Line’s Oakland fleet did not meet the three-hour diesel engine operational time limits, and did not reduce auxiliary engine power generation by 70% as is required. Mitsui O.S.K.

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APRIL 22, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $5 million in grant funding for 4 clean diesel projects at ports in California, Oregon, New Jersey and Texas. Depending on the type of equipment, new diesel engines are 90% cleaner than the old engines they replace.

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JUNE 30, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve California’s air quality plans (the State Implementation Plans, SIP) for fine particles (PM 2.5 ) in the South Coast (SC) and San Joaquin Valley (SJV). These plans will reduce pollution to the level required by the health-based 1997 PM 2.5 in California.

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MAY 26, 2016

and the Port of Los Angeles are launching the Green Omni Terminal Demonstration Project, a full-scale, real-time demonstration of zero and near-zero emission technologies at a working marine terminal. At full build out, Pasha will be the world’s first marine terminal able to generate all of its energy needs from renewable sources.

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AUGUST 25, 2018

Diesel particulate matter (DPM) remains down 87%, and sulfur oxides (SO x ) remain down 98%. Additionally, in compliance with California’s progressively stricter shore power requirements, more ships plugged into shore-side electricity instead of burning fuel at berth. percent or lower sulfur content.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

A study of a hybrid tugboat, funded by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) and conducted by UC Riverside, found that when compared with a conventional diesel-powered version, a hybrid tugboat can reduce emissions of PM 2.5 quantify the effects of the diesel electric drive train versus batteries on the total emission.

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MAY 26, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved a plan to mitigate statewide harm from more than 10,000 tons of smog-causing pollutants released in the state due to Volkswagen’s (VW) use of illegal “defeat devices” in diesel passenger cars. liter diesel passenger vehicles with illegal software in the United States.

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MARCH 28, 2015

The California Air Resources Board (ARB), US Department of Justice (DOJ) and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined forces to prosecute. EPA learned that MTU had installed a catalytic converter onto its prototype engine during testing to reduce emissions of pollutants. MTU America Inc.

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JULY 9, 2009

Requiring ships to use marine fuel with 0.1% In a 2007 study, Winebrake and James Corbett from the University of Delaware (who is a co-author of the current study) concluded that pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year. Credit: ACS.

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MARCH 8, 2009

An emerging technology is a device or system that reduces emissions from diesel engines or diesel engine powered vehicles or equipment that has not certified or verified by EPA or the California Air Resources Board (CARB) but for which an approvable application and test plan have been submitted for verification.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

There have been vast improvements in air quality in California over the previous decades. These new SIPs demonstrate that, by 2024, pollution will be reduced to the level needed to attain the 1997 8-hour ozone standard of 0.08 Children and the elderly are most impacted by ozone pollution. parts per million (ppm) by 2024.

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OCTOBER 17, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) recently held a workshop to discuss proposed amendments to the Regulations for Fuel Sulfur and Other Operational Requirements for ocean-going vessels (OGV). It requires OGVs to use less polluting marine distillate fuels instead of heavy fuel oil within a designated area along the California coastline.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Foss Maritime Company, builder and operator of a hybrid tugboat ( earlier post ), will add a second hybrid tug, a retrofit, to its Southern California fleet with the help of an air quality grant obtained by the Port of Long Beach. tons of diesel particulate matter. Tags: Hybrids Ports and Marine. Click to enlarge. More than 1.2

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JULY 28, 2015

The Maritime Administration is committed to finding new and efficient technologies for use in the maritime industry that reduce pollution and protect our environment. Other contributors include the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Resources Board (ARB) and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.

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JULY 21, 2017

The document outlines a new set of aggressive near-term and long-term strategies for the nation’s busiest harbor complex to further reduce harmful air pollution from all port-related sources, assist the state in meeting aggressive greenhouse gas reduction goals, and ultimately achieve zero emissions for trucks and terminal equipment.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The researchers determined the global warming potential, expressed in carbon dioxide equivalents (t e CO 2 ), for seven components of urban inventories: electricity, heating and industrial fuels, industrial processes, ground transportation, aviation, marine, and waste. Diane Pataki, University of California, Irvine. t e CO 2 /cap.,

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MAY 5, 2016

The State of California is awarding $23.6 Demonstration trucks and charging infrastructure will be used in all five air districts, providing emission reduction benefits in key areas of California with drayage truck activity. Volvo will be deploying a plug-in hybrid electric diesel truck under the Mack brand. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Ballard Power Systems will provide fuel cell modules to power two port terminal yard trucks as part of a project being managed by GTI and partially funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). million dollars to GTI for the Zero Emissions for California Ports (ZECAP) Project. Conventional diesel-engined Capacity TJ9000.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released the public discussion draft of the required update to the AB 32 Scoping Plan. The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change.

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APRIL 21, 2009

But theyve needed definitive proof that PHEVs wont increase pollution. CA, NY, MA and other states have had Zero-Emission Vehicle programs since the early 1990s because battery electric vehicles in those states, taking into account power plants, are far cleaner than gasoline cars in reducing urban air pollution and smog.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Ocean going vessels (OGVs) are the single largest source of Southern California goods movement air emissions and they. By 2023, this plan calls for 77% diesel PM reductions and 59% NO x reductions. make up approximately half of all port-related air emissions. Since 2005, voluntary emission reduction.

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JUNE 28, 2013

On the positive side, the current regulatory situation has resulted in a high likelihood of enthusiastic participation by the container fleets, especially those that have vessel traffic to/from California ports. You can replace the diesel generator with a hydrogen fuel cell without changing the operations. —Joe Pratt.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In California, you end up having to clean, do remediation, and take all the spoils to Kettleman City [the site of a hazardous waste facility]. We did [the record-setting electric flight] in conjunction with them and with another organization in central California that’s trying to rejuvenate these general aviation airports.

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