Construction Industry Air Quality Coalition

	CIAQC Joins Forces With DTCC! CIAQC has partnered with Driving Toward a Cleaner California (DTCC), to represent you as CARB develops its truck and bus replacement rule. Visit DTCC’s web site at www.drivecleanca.org for up-to-date information about this rule and to sign up for email updates!				Attention Contractors! CARB Public Hearing on Off-Road Regulation – March 11, 2010 After a significant push by the Construction Industry Air Quality Coalition (CIAQC), its members and a Petition for Emergency Relief filed by the Associated General Contractors (AGC), the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will hold a public hearing March 11, 2010 on the need for additional modifications to the Off-Road Regulation due to the down economy. This could lead to further relief with changes to the regulation by the end of the year! The hearing will be conducted by CARB’s Executive Officer and will begin at 9:00 a.m. in the Byron Sher Auditorium at the Cal EPA Headquarters (1001 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814). It is critically important that contractors and construction equipment owners attend the hearing to tell CARB how they have been affected by the recession and how compliance with the Off-Road Regulation will further hurt your company’s ability to remain in business. Read more »


	Get Informed For years CIAQC has worked diligently to insist that air quality regulations impacting contractors are both technologically and economically feasible. There is no avoiding this regulation, but working together we can make sure that CARB hears from of the construction industry. The South Coast Air Quality Management District is developing a new rule to control emissions from new or redevelopment projects. This rule would require you to reduce emissions above and beyond standards already set by the California Air Resources Board. Click here to learn more about this proposal.		Get Involved Make sure you have up-to-date information on crucial policy decisions that will impact YOUR BUSINESS. Sign-up for regular email updates from CIAQC and the Coalition To Build A Cleaner California today! Name: Email:

	Today’s Headlines Defections Shake Up Climate Coalition Three big companies quit an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away. Oil giants BP PLC and ConocoPhillips and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Tuesday they won't renew their membership in the three-year-old U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a broad business-environmental coalition that had been instrumental in building support in Washington for capping emissions of greenhouse gases. The move comes as debate over climate change intensifies and concerns mount about the cost of capping greenhouse-gas emissions. Read more » Winds carry Asian smog component to Western U.S., study finds Experts say that baseline ozone, the amount of gas not produced by local vehicles and industries, has increased in springtime months by 29% since 1984. Ozone from Asia is wafting across the Pacific on springtime winds and boosting the amount of the smog-producing gas found in the skies above the Western United States, researchers said in a study released Wednesday. Read more » Obama's EPA to ratchet down smog goals New federal clean-air guidelines will continue to reduce smog in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier areas, but business owners struggling in the down economy feared any new rules would threaten their livelihoods, according to officials and business owners. The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed stricter health standards for smog, replacing limits that reportedly ran counter to recommendations from scientists. Read more » State air board must clean its own house The California Air Resources Board recently threw out a tainted study about the health effects of diesel truck emissions after it was disclosed that the author of the report had lied about his academic credentials. CARB officials had known since December 2008 that the researcher had falsified his credentials, but did not tell board members. Read more » More News: State orders new diesel pollution report Board delays diesel rules Suspend diesel rule, critics urge Dan Walters: Air board's cover-up casts pall on diesel rules Fresno doctor wants truck air rules suspended Lois Henry: Arrogance pollutes air board Editorial: The air board’s shame Senate bill would release AQMD air permits stalled by court ruling New York Times: Environment Groups Find Less Support on Court Losses of factory jobs in California blamed on regulation Port of Oakland votes to ban dirty diesel trucks Greenhouse emissions bill faces contentious summer of debate Bill aims to keep emission-reduction efforts local Striking the Right Balance to Achieve Environmental and Economic Wins Dodgy science strangles industry Voice: Worrying about new regulation CARB to vote on stiff rules Dec. 11 Christian Science Monitor: California Eyes Going ‘Green’ Despite Slump 2,000 diesel trucks built before 1989 banned at L.A., Long Beach port