SCAQMD Approves Funding for 483 Natural Gas Trucks To Replace Diesels for Drayage at Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
16 September 2009
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Governing Board voted last Friday to approve funding for 483 natural gas-fueled (liquefied natural gas (LNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG)) trucks to replace old diesel trucks serving the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
The new trucks are expected to use approximately 3.6 million gasoline gallon equivalents of natural gas fuel per year once fully deployed.
SCAQMD is administering the truck-funding program for the California Air Resources Board and the Ports. Funding for the program is provided by the Proposition 1B Program of the state of California and by the SCAQMD and the Ports. The program supports the Ports’ Clean Air Action Plan, which seeks to replace the fleet of older diesel trucks servicing the Ports with new clean trucks.
Earlier funding has replaced approximately 400 old diesel trucks with new natural-gas-fueled trucks. The natural-gas-fueled trucks reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, toxic diesel particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides.
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