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AIR QUALITY DEBATE * UK
* England - SMMT to host commercial vehicle air quality debate
(Photo:Prakash Singh/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images -Jan. 31: Indian commuters waited for a bus on a polluted morning in New Delhi)
London,EN,UK -Fleet News -16 Jan 2015: -- SMMT will host a debate in February on the bus, coach and commercial vehicle sectors’ contribution to improving air quality... Aimed at national and local government policy stakeholders, fleet operators and vehicle manufacturers, the event will showcase clean air technology embedded in the latest buses, trucks and vans, and investigate potential policy frameworks for clean air in the UK... SMMT Improving Air Quality: The Commercial Vehicle Contribution, an invite-only event in London on February 11, 2015, will address concerns about emissions hotspots, and demonstrate how the latest vehicle technology is already playing a vital role in delivering on strict targets for UK emissions reductions... Delegates will hear from commercial vehicle and bus manufacturers, including Ford, Iveco, Mercedes-Benz, Optare and Renault Trucks UK, who will demonstrate how new and emerging technology, including the latest Euro 6-compliant diesel vehicles, have the potential to all but eliminate diesel nitrogen oxides (NOx) tailpipe emissions...Labels: clean air, events
CLEAN AIR PLANS * USA - Southern California Businesses Could Be Fee-Free Thanks to AQMD
School Buses to Still Benefit
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -School Transportation News, by Stephane Babcock -7 February 2011: -- In an effort to take some of the burden of the mandatory emission fee provision in the federal Clean Air Act of area businesses, the South Coast Air Quality Management District has adopted an alternative measure to satisfy the requirement that could benefit school district bus purchases as well... According the Clean Air Act, beginning in 2012 businesses that emit smog-forming volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) must pay a fee if the Southern California area of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties do not meet the federal clean air standards... Now, instead of being fined when the standards are not met, an approved, alternative program allows funding for federal, state and local air quality improvement programs not currently being used to meet the 1-hour ozone standard... The new program aims to cut emissions from other sources in Southern California, including school buses... Allowable projects could include school bus replacements and retrofits, a plus for struggling districts around the state. Currently, the AQMD is predicting that there should be sufficient funding available until at least 2020...Labels: clean air
CLEAN AIR PURPOSES * UK - Thousands not yet compliant with London LEZ
London,UK -Road Transport -23 November 2007: -- Transport for London (TfL) believes operators will comply with the London Low Emission Zone which comes into force in February, despite a recent survey that found 80,000 vehicles are still non-compliant... Manufacturers have raised concerns that builders merchants and glaziers which are not hauliers but still run CVs will slip through the net, but TfL says it is "very pleased" with the level of awareness of the scheme, which is designed to improve the Capital's air quality... TfL's own survey of vehicles entering the zone between 4 August and 14 September found 79,400 registered owners of non-compliant vehicles, which includes all CVs over 3.5 tonnes, as well as PCVs... (Photo from www.biggreenjewish.org: London's Air pollution ...)Labels: clean air
CLEAN AIR * USA & Canada - West coast ports plan to mirror truck emission rules
A trio of northwestern shipping ports are planning to follow through with similar truck emission rules recently passed at the ports of L.A. and Long BeachSeattle,Wash,USA -The Seattle Post Intelligencer/Today's Trucking -22 Nov 2007: -- ... The Seattle seaport, along with the ports of Tacoma and Vancouver, B.C., has drafted a program similar to one in the Golden State in which trucks built before 1989 could be banned from entering the port as of October 2008... Trucks are just one part of a larger strategy that asks port business reduce air emissions produced by container ships, cargo handling equipment and railroads...
(Picture: In January, the VPA will follow suit and ban trucks older than 1989)
Labels: clean air
