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California adds $72.5M for cleaner diesel trucks, deployment of advanced vehicle technologies

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced an additional $72.5 The Air Resources Board will move $8 million from other clean vehicle projects into ARB’s Truck Loan Assistance Program. This program provides vouchers of up to $55,000 to help California fleets purchase cleaner, advanced technology trucks and buses.

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California to transition clean vehicle rebate program to helping low-income residents

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The California Air Resources Board will transition its existing Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) program to a new program targeting low- and middle-income Californians. Once funding has been exhausted, the program will close to new applications, and updated information will be available on the CVRP website.

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California ARB Report Finds Fine Particle Air Pollution Responsible for 9,000 Premature Deaths in State Each Year; Based on US EPA Peer-Reviewed Study

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Approximately 9,000 people in California are estimated to die prematurely each year as a result of exposure to fine particle pollution, according to a new report issued by the California Air Resources Board (ARB). There is also a low cost truck loan program under AB 118 to help truckers access financing before regulatory deadlines.

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Reducing Black Carbon Emissions and Ground-Level Ozone Would Provide Immediate Benefit Against Climate Change

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Ramanathan and Jessica Seddon Wallack, director of the Center for Development Finance at the Institute for Financial Management and Research in Chennai, India. Available technology such as diesel particulate filters for vehicles and cleaner- burning biomass and solar cookstoves can significantly reduce black carbon emissions.

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Tata AutoComp’s ‘Make in India’ push for EVs | Autocar Professional

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Tesla was rapidly expanding its reach and portfolio, and the Volkswagen Group — hurt from the ‘diesel gate’ scandal — had committed huge resources to pivot to electric cars. As for CNG or ethanol vehicles, they have a range of exhaust and emission after-treatment solutions. Back home, Mahindra & Mahindra was the sole player.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Auction revenues may be used for the public good by allocating the allowance value to: households as dividends; financing investments and other public expenditures; and. Support for this use of allowance value stems from the idea that the climate-regulating services of the atmosphere are a common property resource.

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