Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Long Beach Transit (LBT) recently received a $600,000 grant from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) of the South Coast Air Quality Management District Near Zero Incentive Program for the purchase of 40 Cummins “near-zero” compressed natural gas (CNG) engines. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2011

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. California Attorney General Kamala D. Trapac, Inc.;

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Exhaust Los Angeles Long Beach Diesel 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2020

Once fully implemented, the updated regulation will deliver a 90% reduction in pollution from an expected additional 2,300 vessel visits per year, and result in a 55% reduction in potential cancer risk for communities near the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Richmond.

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Pollution California Los Angeles Long Beach 305

Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

But the problem is going to come in 2035 when they exhaust that 40%. And then there’s interoperability and all those standards that we take for granted in the 12- and 24-volt world. I don’t come home smelling like diesel. With current technology, they can hit those numbers. They don’t really exist in the 800-volt world.

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Standards Market Volt Vehicles 73