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Bureaucratic Affair * USA - State orders new diesel pollution report
Sacramento,CAL,USA -The San Francisco Chronicle, by Wyatt Buchanan -December 10, 2009: -- State researchers must redo a report that concluded 3,500 people prematurely die each year due to diesel pollution - a finding that was used to justify imposing the nation's strictest regulations on diesel engines... The California Air Resources Board ordered a new report after the employee who wrote it was found to have lied about his academic credentials. That decision was made Wednesday after an air board hearing on the rules, which critics want to delay because of concerns over the cost of retrofitting and replacing the polluting engines...
* California - To pollute or not to pollute, that is a question for
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Xinhua/chinaview, by George Bao -11 Dec 2009: -- Diesel-driven road users in other U.S. states on Wednesday hove their sighs of relief as California backtracked its diesel emission rules by delaying implementation... California, the only U.S. state having the right to adopt its own emission regulations, passed in December last year the toughest standards in the country and all the other states are allowed to follow suit or opt for federal standards... The Associated General Contractors of America estimated that as many as 32 states were closely following the footsteps of California in enforcing the first-time emission limits for in-use fleets of diesel-driven equipment... But in an unexpected policy turn allegedly prompted by the ongoing recession, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has ordered modifications to the emission rule specifics worked out in April... If implemented without delay, around 1 million trucks and buses countrywide will have to be retrofitted or replaced altogether while some older models will have to be phased out in due time... Almost all the 50 U.S. states have to write their clean air "state implementation plans" (SIP) to show how they will meet the tighter federal standards... For the time being, 19 states are having air pollution problems similar to those found in California. And any state that fails to develop an "approvable" SIP can be subject to numerous federal sanctions including emission caps limiting economic development and losses of federal highway transportation funds...
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