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!
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Attention Contractors!CARB Considering a Limited One-Year Extension for Non-Certified (Tier 0) Portable Engines If you would like the ability to continue to use certain non-certified Tier 0 portable engines for an additional year, plan to attend the California Air Resources Board (CARB) meeting on January 28, 2010 in Sacramento to express your support. At the hearing the CARB Board will consider amendments to extend the deadline for replacing older engines for smaller companies (those with 25 or fewer portable engines) and modify the Portable Equipment Registration Program (PERP) recordkeeping and reporting requirements. The Construction Industry Air Quality Coalition (CIAQC) supports the concept for a one-year extension but recommends that it should be available to all portable engines and not limited to ‘smaller’ companies. With California construction activity dramatically down, changes to the portable equipment regulations would be a welcomed relief and help preserve jobs. To view a copy of the CARB agenda for January 28, 2010, click here. The board meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and this is the second item on the agenda. To see a copy of the CIAQC recommendations to CARB, click here. |
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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. |
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! |
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Today’s HeadlinesWinds carry Asian smog component to Western U.S., study findsExperts 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. Obama's EPA to ratchet down smog goalsNew 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. State air board must clean its own houseThe 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. State orders new diesel pollution reportState 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. More News:
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