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Clean Air Strategy * USA - Would further tighten restrictions
Aging truck fleets, wood-burning fireplaces and char broilers face changes if plan passesLos Angeles,CA,USA -Los Angeles Times, by Janet Wilson -September 22, 2007: -- Air quality officials from Southern California and the state jointly announced a sweeping set of measures Friday aimed at improving Los Angeles' badly polluted air in time to meet a 2014 federal deadline... Targeted for possible ban, retrofit or replacement are aging heavy-duty truck fleets, wood-burning fireplaces in homes and char broilers in restaurants... Regulators are also seeking millions of dollars to retrofit Metrolink trains with anti-pollution devices, will ask the federal government to move more quickly on reducing emissions from locomotives, and will ask local governments in the four-county metropolitan area to use vehicle registration fees to replace municipal dump trucks and other diesel equipment... (Photo from LA, On the Street, by Frank: S 14 Fwy)
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