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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) staff will host a public workshop on 11 February to discuss ideas and strategies to reduce in-use emissions from heavy-duty diesel vehicles operating in the State of California. The workshop will be held at the Cal/EPA Headquarters Building in. Sacramento, California. Background.
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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) will host a public workshop to discuss regulatory concepts to reduce NO x emissions from new on-road heavy-duty vehicles greater than 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating. The workshop will be available via webcast for those unable to attend in person.
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its 1999 study “Diesel Emissions and Lung Cancer: Epidemiology. be charged with the following: Review the findings of the 1999 HEI Special Report, Diesel Emissions and Lung. diesel exhaust, and analyze such data as needed. association between exposure to diesel emissions and lung. for quantitative risk assessment (QRA).
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liter EA189 TDI diesel engine. The owners of these models are being successively informed and can then make an early appointment with an authorised workshop to have the update done. The KBA approval applies to 460,000 vehicles of affected Group brands, including the Volkswagen Polo and SEAT Ibiza models.
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