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PROSPECT TRUCKS PURCHASE
* USA - AQMD OKs $36M for trucks - Clean rigs for ports will be purchased with funds
Long Beach,CAL,USA -Long Beach Press.Telegram, by Kristopher Hanson -3 Nov 2006: -- Air quality officials Friday approved $36 million for an anti-pollution measure that would help truckers replace dirty diesel rigs operating in and around the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles... Funding will be spread out over five years and complements $166 million the ports have pledged to reduce emissions from the port trucking industry and the ports will work out how the money will be distributed. They anticipate funding will be available in 2007... Half of the $12 million will be for liquified natural gas (LNG) trucks, with the remaining $6 million for subsidized new trucks, which can cost $150,000 or more... Authorities estimate costs to replace all older diesel trucks in the ports are at least $2 billion...
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