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AGC chapters awarded clean diesel grants
Those who got down to business earlier this year filing for federal grants to help waylay the costs of outfitting construction fleets with the latest emissions technology are now being rewarded. The Associated General Contractors of America’s Kentucky and western-Pennsylvania chapters received nearly $3 million in grants from the EPA’s National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program, […]
January 11, 2010
Equipment
Calling all California contractors
The California Air Resources Board plans to host two events related to the In-Use Off-Road Diesel Vehicle Regulation, which requires fleets with 25-horsepower engines or greater to meet fleet average targets for specific emissions, or retrofit or repower a percentage of the fleets’ horsepower per year.  On Friday, December 19, 2008, a workshop will […]
January 11, 2010
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Considering a net-zero gas tax
One thing I hate to see conservatives do is to agitate against gas taxes. As taxes go it’s a fair one. Almost all the money goes to highway construction and maintenance, it’s the lowest gas tax in the civilized world, and it hasn’t been adjusted for inflation in more than a decade. Yet John McCain […]
January 11, 2010
Equipment
EPA revisiting California emissions rules
In a rare moment of restraint, the Federal Environmental Protection Agency in March of 2008 denied California the right to set its own separate motor vehicle emissions rules. That denial may be in danger of crumbling now that the EPA is reconsidering. Shortly after taking office President Barrack Obama requested that the EPA revisit the […]
January 11, 2010
Equipment
Oregon wants to ban aftermarket car parts
Give regulators an inch and they take a mile. This is what Oregon’s governor is proposing: “Restrictions and prohibitions on the sale and distribution of after-market motor vehicle parts, including but not limited to tires, if alternatives are available that decrease greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles;” This from a state that’s already $1.2 billion […]
January 11, 2010
Safety
California budget deal eases off-road emissions rules
The story from the Los Angeles Times is short on specifics, but long on weeping and wailing from the greens. This quote is so over the top that it’s almost satire: “There are people who will die because of this delay,” said Mary D. Nichols, chairman of the state Air Resources Board. “It is sad […]
January 11, 2010
Equipment
Volvo announces surcharge for 2010 trucks
Technology often comes at an additional cost.  Volvo Trucks North America’s 2010 emissions-compliant trucks will include a $9,600 surcharge. The company says the extra cost reflects the price of technology required for meeting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s strict emissions standards, scheduled to take effect January 1, 2010.   “Our emissions reduction technology for 2010 will bring […]
January 11, 2010
Equipment
CARB proposes low-carbon fuel standard
To help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the California Air Resources Board wants to set a low carbon standard for fuels that would force users away from hydro-carbons and towards electricity, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas and biofuels.
January 11, 2010
Equipment
EPA to declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant
This little noticed news (the EPA put out their press release Friday, guaranteeing minimal coverage) reminds me of a joke. Two guys are sitting at a bar. First guy says, “Mind if I smoke?” Second guy says, “not at all.” First guy says, “thanks.” Second guy says, “but please don’t exhale.” Granted we pump out a lot […]
January 11, 2010
Equipment
City or suburb: which has the biggest carbon footprint?
Surprisingly, this study shows urban apartments use more energy–up to 70 percent more–than comparable residences in the suburbs. This swats down the arguement favored by environmentalistfashionistas who want to round us all up and squeeze us into trendy, loft apartments. And this study doesn’t take into account all that carbon dioxide being sequestered by suburban lawns, shrubs and […]
January 11, 2010
Business
EPA declares carbon dioxide a danger
We knew this was coming. Now the only debate is whether the EPA will get authority to write the regulations governing the amount of carbon dioxide any business, equipment or vehicle can emit, or whether congress will write it’s own cap-and-trade style regulations. Congress has authority to take the lead. Either way you can bet […]
January 11, 2010
Equipment
Natural gas: the fuel of the future
If you care about energy, energy independence, global warming, or the U.S. trade deficit, there is a must-read article on natural gas today in the Wall Street Journal. At Equipment World, we’ve been researching and writing about alternative fuels for a couple of years now, and as hard as I’ve looked for the bad news […]
January 10, 2010
Equipment
Doubts cast on EPA’s role in regulating carbon dioxide
The EPA’s big power grab, setting itself up to regulate carbon dioxide as a threat to human health, may be in trouble. According to a memo from the Office of Management and Budget, the premise that CO2 is a toxic substance rests on “dubious assumptions and could have negative economic effects.” When pressed for an […]
January 10, 2010
Equipment
Emissions: trains worse than planes
Researchers at the University of California Berkeley have deduced that when it comes to emissions of greenhouse gasses and consumption of fossil fuels, you’re doing the planet a favor if you take a plane rather than a train. This robs the current administration of an environmental justification for its plans to launch for a national network of […]
January 10, 2010
Equipment
Navistar claims EPA collaborated with SCR proponents
Navistar International – the lone manufacturer choosing exhaust gas recirculation to meet 2010 emissions standards – has filed a petition against the U.S. EPA for removing documents from an administrative record pertaining to selective catalytic reduction guidelines, including e-mail discussions about SCR between EPA, California Air Resources Board and Engine Manufacturers Association staff. In one […]
January 10, 2010
Equipment
Sixty of today’s diesels cleaner than one 1988 model
That’s an interesting nugget in a larger report out today about the effectiveness of the 2007-2008 clean diesel engines for trucks and buses. The report also states that today’s truck and bus diesels have cut most emissions by 90 percent compared with 2004 models and that these reductions “exceeded substantially even those levels required by […]
January 10, 2010
Business
California truck fleet funding available
Small California-based fleets needing assistance in replacing their older, heavy-duty diesel trucks with new trucks can find solace in the California Air Resources Board’s Voucher Incentive Program.  The program, also known as VIP, has $15 million in available funding, open to any small business owner for heavy-duty truck replacements statewide. Between $30,000 and $35,000 […]
January 10, 2010
Equipment
International’s Navistar unveils 2010-compliant EGR engine
Navistar unveiled its 2010 MaxxForce 13-liter advanced Exhausted Gas Recirculation (EGR) engine on Feb. 3 at the World of Concrete in Las Vegas. Through the use advanced fuel injection, air management, electronic controls, and proprietary combustion technology, the engine meets U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2010 emissions standard for on-highway diesel engines. “We’re on track to […]
January 10, 2010
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