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‘California’s Climategate’ * USA - CARB Member Calls for Diesel Rule Review in
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Enviromental Leader -December 4, 2009: -- A member of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is calling for a review by independent researchers of the new diesel emissions rules for trucks and buses after learning that a researcher whose work contributed to the pollution standards in December 2008 falsified his credentials... The truck and bus fuel emissions rule, requires trucking fleets to acquire diesel particulate matter filters and upgrade their truck engines beginning in 2012, with the exception of small trucking businesses that will be exempt until 2014... The estimated cost to the transportation industry is about $6 billion to $10 billion, according to the article... The scandal is calling into question the power and the response of the air resources board to the scandal as well as the legitimacy of the costly policy...Labels: rules and regulations
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