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Article: Historic Clean Trucks Program Reaches One-year Mile Marker
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Lisa Warshaw, +1-213-630-1192 x 103, or Martin
Schlageter, +1-323-807-2505, both of the Coalition for Clean Air
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, one year
after the landmark Clean Trucks Program (CTP) launched at the Ports
of Los Angeles and Long Beach, thousands of the dirtiest diesel
trucks are off the road, replaced by cleaner trucks. In just one
year, the CTP has reduced emissions equivalent to the amount
produced by 200,000 automobiles on Southern California's highways.
When the next ban of old trucks takes place on January 1, 2010,
nearly all of the trucks serving the Ports will meet emissions
standards of 2007 model year trucks.
"The ...