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Article: Construction industry battles rule for engine upgrades; business coalition launches attack on state Air Resources Board.(POLLUTION)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 14, 2007
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IT'S the biggest showdown on a California environmental regulation so far this year.
In less than two weeks, state air regulators, backed by environmental groups, are poised to adopt a sweeping rule that would require construction firms to spend millions of dollars to purchase less-polluting bulldozers and backhoes or retrofit their existing equipment with cleaner-burning engines.
The construction industry has mounted an all-out campaign to block--or at least delay--the rule, recently forming the Coalition to Build a Cleaner California. "Don't Let Sacramento Steamroll Your Construction Business," screams the headline on the coalition's home page.
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