Thanks to thousands of emails from UCS activists like you, and support from other residents across the state, the California Air Resources Board voted unanimously to set a 5-minute idling limit for diesel trucks that typically idle overnight! Trucking companies will now equip their sleeper cabs with cleaner, smaller engines or non-diesel alternatives to power air conditioning, heating, and other amenities for sleeping truckers. Thanks to this new rule, California will save over 100 million gallons of diesel fuel a year, prevent more than 700,000 tons of global warming emissions and thousands of tons of toxic and smog-forming air pollution from being emitted every year, and save truckers a small fortune in fuel costs. |
November 08, 2005
From Union of Concerned Scientists (emphasis added):
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