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MARCH 30, 2021

California Assemblymembers Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) and Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) introduced legislation to phase out the sale of new gas-powered small off-road engines (SORE), which are primarily used in lawn and garden equipment, including leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and other outdoor power equipment.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) is leading a landmark effort along with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to deploy 100 battery-electric regional haul and drayage trucks across California. The project was funded with $26.98

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs are a category of pollutants which remain in the atmosphere for a relatively brief period, but have global warming potentials that are much higher than those of CO 2.

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APRIL 20, 2022

The California Assembly Transportation Committee passed a landmark ZEV incentive reform bill, AB 2816 , by a 6-2 vote on Monday. If passed, this bill would make California the first government in the world to focus ZEV incentives on maximizing cuts in gasoline consumption. There’s nobody you see driving more than a landscaper.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) recently adopted a five-year, statewide, $1-billion transportation electrification program. The decision also furthers the integration of EVs as an energy resource that can help meet the needs of the grid by developing a strategy for promoting vehicle-grid integration.

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MARCH 25, 2021

The California Energy Commission has awarded GTI and Sierra Northern Railway nearly $4,000,000 to fund the design, integration, and demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell switching locomotive to support the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstrations in Rail and Marine Applications at Ports (H2RAM) initiative.

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APRIL 22, 2019

From 2011 to 2015, California experienced its worst drought on record, with a parching combination of high temperatures and low precipitation. Although ozone in the stratosphere protects the earth from ultraviolet radiation, at ground level the molecule is a harmful air pollutant to humans, animals and plants. Mary Angelique G.

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MAY 18, 2021

megawatt hours of battery storage into the mix fully validated our assumptions for the potential for this next generation technology to further drive efficiencies and greenhouse gas reductions. The California pilot program was part of a $22.6m-illion —Eric Gebhardt, Wabtec Chief Technology Officer.

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APRIL 27, 2017

The California Assembly is considering a bill ( AB-378 ) that would integrate air quality performance into the state’s greenhouse-gas (GHG) cap-and- trade program. Assembly Bill 378 was proposed by by Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, who heads the Assembly’s Committee on Natural Resources. CNR passed the proposal on Monday.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

GTI has released a site-specific engineering design titled “ Low-Carbon Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Wood Wastes ”. A biomass power plant in Stockton, California, was the host site for the engineering design effort. A biomass power plant in Stockton, California, was the host site for the engineering design effort.

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JULY 16, 2019

The California Energy Commission approved nearly $70 million in funding to replace more than 200 old diesel school buses with all-electric buses that will reduce school children’s exposure to harmful emissions and help the state reach its climate and air quality goals. million of the program’s funds to schools in 26 California counties.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

California Governor Edmund G. signed SB 1383 , establishing the nation’s toughest restrictions on super pollutants including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane. The law is in addition to California’s existing raft of climate legislation. Wildfires contribute almost 50% of the total black carbon emissions in California.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

California’s latest greenhouse gas data shows that while the state continues to stay below its 2020 target for emissions, there is much more work to do to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. Source: California Air Resources Board (ARB). Per capita GHG emissions in California have dropped from a 2001 peak of 14.0

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The California Air Resources Board has approved the first three Community Emissions Reduction Programs (CERP) within the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) under Assembly Bill 617. Oil and gas operations. The plans approved are for: Wilmington, Carson, West Long Beach. Residential energy use. Urban sources.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

With the enactment of SB 1014 ( earlier post )—the Clean Miles Standard and Incentive Program—the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is to develop and to implement new requirements for transportation network companies (TNCs)—i.e.,

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AUGUST 15, 2018

Southern California Gas Co. FXI) announced the addition of 11 new ultra-low emission natural gas trucks to the FXI fleet. Funding was received from the Prop 1B program administered by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District and the California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Program (HVIP).

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JULY 24, 2020

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel, has opened four new fueling stations in northern and central California, providing greater accessibility to 100% renewable diesel. Neste’s fuel has already played a major role in California’s low carbon fuel standard, replacing more than 1.6 102 South Beech Ave.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released a draft Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy. The draft strategy describes proposed actions the State will take to move forward aggressively to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs). Black Carbon.

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MAY 31, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced a $1.36-million The LCFS requires that regulated fuel producers report the carbon generated in the production of transportation fuels sold in California. The LCFS encourages the use of cleaner, low-carbon fuels in California. In this case, the company misreported 1.9

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DECEMBER 25, 2019

Among pollutants that are less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5 ), airborne sulfate is one of the most common components of hazy air pollution formed atmospherically via the oxidation of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ). In collaboration with the California Institute of Technology, a research team led by Prof.

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MAY 27, 2020

SwRI developed the technology for the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Created to address California’s pollution challenges, this technology could be a solution for communities around the globe dealing with the effects of NO x. Making a relevant impact on pollutants requires a whole system approach.

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APRIL 12, 2016

The California Air Resources Board released a new draft of California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy to significantly reduce the near-term climate impacts of these potent pollutants. Together, SLCPs represent about 12% of California’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The California Air Resources Board approved a $2.6-billion This year’s investment dollars focus largely on underserved communities, including low-income communities and those disproportionately burdened by environmental pollution, as well as small truck fleets. The 2022 state budget expands these efforts by $6.1

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APRIL 28, 2021

The California Energy Commission is awarding $2 million (GFO-20-604, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstrations in Rail and Marine Applications at Ports (H2RAM)) and Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) will provide $200,000 in funding to support a project developing a hydrogen fuel cell solution to power harbor craft vessels.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

On Monday, California Governor Edmund G. and Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary Rodolfo Lacy and Mexican National Forestry Commission Director General Jorge Rescala Pérez signed an agreement to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

The California Air Resources Board announced a new statewide grant and loan program to help lower-income consumers across California get into the cleanest new and used cars on the market. The program has been up and running since June.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

million in Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) grants to public and private partners in California. The funds will be used to retrofit and replace old, polluting diesel vehicles and equipment, including school buses, heavy-duty trucks, tractors and port equipment. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $9.6

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APRIL 7, 2022

liter, heavy-duty opposed-piston, three-cylinder diesel engine it developed in a project funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and several partners ( earlier post ) has entered fleet service with WALMART Corporation in a Peterbilt 579 tractor. Achates Power announced that the 10.6-liter,

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting research suggestions for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Annual Research Plan in the form of brief conceptual descriptions that address specified research gaps and support the Board’s ongoing regulatory and policy priorities. The deadline to submit research concepts is 31 January 2012.

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MAY 17, 2019

New 2018 data from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) indicates that the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) continues to drive production of a growing volume of cleaner transportation fuels for California consumers. California reached that overall goal in 2016. To date almost 3.3

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills to strengthen emission standards for trucks, semis and other high-pollution vehicles. Finally, CARB is to strengthen existing or to adopt new regulations to achieve greenhouse gas reductions within the transportation sector. Truck emissions. Executive order. Executive order.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

The California Air Resources Board announced a new program that will fund a variety of projects promoting zero-emission transportation options for students, parents and staff members served by school districts in California. —CARB Executive Officer Richard Corey.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Ricardo will partner with Gas Technology Institute (GTI) on two major contracts to enable natural gas engines to provide a viable, fuel-efficient, and less polluting alternative to diesel power for medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles on the highways of California. and EnerPulse Technologies Inc.

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MARCH 24, 2017

The California Air Resources Board approved a new regulation aimed at methane leaks from oil and gas operations. Methane, one of the powerful greenhouse gases called short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and the main component of natural gas, has 72 times the impact on global warming as carbon dioxide.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

At its meeting in Sacramento yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 and 2035 associated with passenger vehicle travel in the state’s 18 Metropolitan Planning Organizations. Earlier post.). Sacramento Region: 7% and 16%. Bay Area Region: 7% and 15%.

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JULY 12, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year.

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MARCH 13, 2023

The State of Maryland followed in the footsteps of California today by banning all new gas vehicle sales by the model year 2035. Maryland laws already exist that require the State to match California’s vehicle emissions programs. Car exhaust is the largest source of greenhouse gas in the State of Maryland.

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