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CLEAN TRUCKS * USA - Rush to comply with New Year's ban on dirty trucks at Port of Oakland
* California - ...admitted it doesn't give the drivers much time: "But better late than never"...
Oakland,CAL,USA -The Contra Costa Times, by Cecily Burt -18 Oct 2009: -- In mid-August Mamdoh Ibrahim was nervous but excited. Since June, the trucker had been wading his way through the application process to get a state grant to buy new air filters for two big rigs his business uses to haul cargo to and from the Port of Oakland... Ibrahim is still waiting. He hasn't received the all-important letter telling him his application has been approved, and he is running out of time... Tough new state air regulations take effect Jan. 1, and trucks manufactured from 1994 through 2003 that haven't been outfitted with special diesel exhaust filters to cut down on dangerous emissions will not be allowed entry to California ports... Ralph Borrmann, spokesman for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, said the fund will pay for about 150 to 170 new truck replacement grants. The California Air Resources Board has posted a rank list of the grant applications that have been completed... But the letters authorizing the drivers to execute a contract and order new trucks won't go out until the second or third week of November... (Photo from sfgate, by Paul Chinn: Idling trucks line up to pick up cargo at the Port of Oakland)
* New York - Mayors push clean truck program
New York,NY,USA -AP/WGME -October 18, 2009: -- New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and Newark, N.J. Mayor, Cory Booker, are calling on Congress to allow ports across the county to implement the "clean truck program" developed in Los Angeles... It's meant to improve air quality in neighborhoods surrounding ports by forcing new emissions standards on the trucking industry... Bloomberg says the program would allow port authorities to set tough new environmental standards that would effectively require that older trucks be replaced by "cleaner and greener" new ones... Booker, who joined Bloomberg for the announcement in Brooklyn, is urging Congress to support changes in federal legislation that would -- quote -- "enhance the ability of our nation's ports to effectuate policies to improve air quality and protect public health"...
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