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STIMULUS FUNDS * USA - Feds provide $2 million for cleaner trucks at Oakland port
Oakland,CAL,USA -The Contra Costa Times, by Denis Cuff -9 July 2009: -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $2 million in economic stimulus funds to reduce pollution from diesel trucks hauling freight in and out of the Port of Oakland... The Bay Area Air Quality Management District will use the money for grants to truckers to install fine particle filters on 81 diesel trucks, and to replace 21 old diesel truckers with cleaner models, the EPA said in a release this week... The money is in addition to $10 million in grants that the air quality district and the port have funded — $5 million from each agency — for truck filters or replacements trucks, said Lisa Fasano, an air district spokeswoman... The $2 million from the EPA was part of an $25 million award of competitive stimulus fund grants announced this week to reduce pollution from diesel vehicles and equipment in California... (Photo from mayhem-chaos: Oakland port)
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posted by Unknown @ 5:45 AM
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a project has been launched for fuel reduction.
justice
bpo solution
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