FUNDS for TRUCKS * USA - California budget crisis freezes diesel money
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -February 6, 2009: -- California’s budget crisis may affect some truck drivers who were counting on diesel emission reduction funds from the Golden State... California’s Proposition 1B includes hundreds of millions of dollars to be used, through the agency’s goods movement emissions-reduction program, to replace or retrofit engines and other devices that pollute the state’s air. California trucking companies were slated to receive some of those funds, but now are waiting on the state to fix its $42 billion budget deficit... Mary Fricke, a CARB spokeswoman, said the agency is essentially stopping all grant payments or equipment projects until the state’s money situation is sorted out...
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