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MECA emissions inventory & air quality modeling shows potential benefits of national cleaner trucks initiative at CARB limits

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Later years should show additional improvements as greater fleet turnover occurs. The modeled 2028 base year 8-hour ozone design values were found to be above the 70 ppb NAAQS for 75 monitoring locations. Metropolitan areas and highway corridors will see the greatest reduction in ozone due to the strategy, with reductions of up to 6.5

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San Joaquin Valley receives $12.9M from CARB for clean trucks

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Emissions from heavy-duty vehicles are primarily under the regulatory jurisdiction of state and federal government, and voluntary incentive programs are critical to transitioning fleets to the next generation of cleaner technologies and achieving reductions needed to meet air quality standards. standards.

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EPA launches Cleaner Trucks Initiative to update NOx standards for heavy-duty trucks

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched the Cleaner Trucks Initiative (CTI) to further decrease NO x emissions from on-highway heavy-duty trucks and engines. The US has made major reductions in NO x emissions, but it’s been nearly 20 years since EPA updated these standards.

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News: All-Electric Semi-Trucks Making a Difference

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On their 100+ mile round trip, these trucks burn diesel fuel that damages the ozone, spews out noxious particulates that seek-out lungs and eyes along with oxides of nitrogen that help create smog, along with other nasty—and toxic—unpleasantness. Post Office will be converting a sizeable portion of its fleet of electric vans.

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EPRI-NRDC report finds widespread vehicle electrification and a cleaner grid could lead to substantial cuts in GHG by 2050

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Use of electric vehicles would achieve greater reductions in GHG emissions, corresponding to the rate that the electric grid becomes cleaner, through greater reliance on renewables and low- and non-emitting generation. This research points to the importance of two fundamental and parallel trends in energy and the environment.

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Republic deploys 67 CNG solid waste and recycling trucks in southern NJ and Philadelphia area

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The new CNG fleet will replace older diesel-powered trucks. One of the more lasting contributions we can make in our community is to protect the environment by reducing ozone-forming emissions wherever possible. Three out of every four trucks in our local fleet will be powered by natural gas by the end of this calendar year.

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ROUSH CleanTech develops near-zero NOx propane autogas engine; CARB-certified at 0.02 g/bhp-hr

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The engine is 90% cleaner than the current Environmental Protection Agency’s most stringent 0.2 Last year, we introduced a propane autogas engine that was 75% cleaner than the EPA’s emissions standard. grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp-hr). Earlier post.). g/bhp-hr heavy-duty engine standard. billion Volkswagen settlement funds.

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