ON-ROAD IN-USE HEAVY-DUTY DIESEL ENGINE LABELING AND TAMPERING
Friday, 03 February 2012 08:25
To all CTN Magazine Reads:
I’ve been hearing much about whether or not older trucks need an engine emission control label (ECL) that is in conformance with CARB regulations, Section 2183(c).
Please read this CARB Advisory below. It should answer all your questions.
I have also heard that OOIDA is fielding calls from their members that CARB will not allow (through DMV vehicle registrations) trucks that are re-powered with an engine older than the original. The exact language is, “engine switches (are allowed) as long as the resulting vehicle matches exactly to any certified configuration of the same or newer model year as the chassis.”
Attached is the relevant EPA “guidance” [EngSwitch] on the subject – 21 years old. According to our read, a member in California who has a 2000 MY truck engine and re-powers with a 1998 engine (same OEM and engine family, same HP) may be in trouble. While the engine has exactly the same emissions profile as the original 2000 engine under the hood it is not the same or newer model year as the chassis. We could see if they had an 04, 07, or ’10 (all new technology year changes) and replaced with an older engine how that could be an issue. What’s ironic about all of this is that for ‘94 or older (engine) owners don’t even need to report and can operate until the end of 2014, ‘95 & ‘96 till the end of 2015! Bet there’s a demand for 95 & 96’s!!!!
California air board to vote on landmark electric-car rules
Thursday, 26 January 2012 11:05
By Paul Roger - Mecury News
In a move that could reshape the American automobile industry, California regulators Thursday are expected to approve sweeping new rules requiring that 15 percent of new cars sold in California by 2025 run on electricity, hydrogen or other systems producing little or no smog.
The regulations by the California Air Resources Board, dubbed the "advanced clean car rules," would start in 2018, ramping up each year and ultimately resulting in 1.4 million "zero emission" vehicles on California roads by 2025. Today there are only about 10,000 such vehicles in the state.
"This is a really large step. It's transformational," said Tom Cackette, an engineer and chief deputy director of the air board. "Ten years from now the market is going to look quite a bit different."
Over the last four weeks CIAQC has focused much attention on CARB and the On-Road Truck Regulation. On December 16th CIAQC meet with CARB staff in Sacramento to discuss several significant implementation issues for the Truck & Bus Regulation and testify at the CARB Board Hearing---the staff met with us prior to our Board testimony in the “CIAQC Office” in the cafeteria. This followed the December 6, 2011 CIAQC letter to Governor Brown outlining the detailed concerns including retrofit filter safety, and the numerous problems with the ability of fleets to register their trucks using CARB’s on-line reporting system along with and CARB’s lack of outreach on the implementation of the regulation and tight deadlines that were emerging.
Health Effects by Occupation in the U.S. Trucking Industry
Thursday, 05 January 2012 16:37
Air Resources Board California Environmental Protection Agency January 24, 2008 PPT Presentation to the Board "This study found that the employees had a lower overall death rate than the general population, as would be expected in a working population."
Cause-Specific Mortality in the Unionized U.S. Trucking Industry
Thursday, 05 January 2012 16:34
Background
Occupational and population-based studies have related exposure to fine particulate air pollution, and specifically particulate matter from vehicle exhausts, to cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer.
Objectives
We have established a large retrospective cohort to assess mortality in the unionized U.S. trucking industry. To provide insight into mortality patterns associated with job-specific exposures, we examined rates of cause-specific mortality compared with the general U.S. population.
California’s stringent new rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions were scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1 2012. But on Thursday Dec. 29, U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence O’Neill ruled that California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which reserves regulation of commerce to the federal government and is interpreted as meaning that states cannot interfere in interstate commerce. However, this is precisely what the new regulations by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) would have done, ruled the judge.
January 1 clean air deadline for state’s trucks and buses
Friday, 30 December 2011 13:59
Diesel regulations go into effect, no extensions will apply.
SACRAMENTO - The California Air Resources Board is reminding owners of heavier diesel trucks and buses that new emission reducing regulations go into effect January 1, 2012 and many businesses may need to report compliance on-line.
The regulation, adopted in 2008 and later amended in 2010, applies to all privately owned and federal government diesel trucks and buses that transport in California.
“Fleet owners who need to get the facts should call ARB’s diesel hotline or go the ARB website for assistance as soon as possible,” said ARB’s Assistant Chief of Mobile Sources Erik White. “We continue to make tools available to help truckers better understand the regulation and determine which options make the most sense for their businesses. Several options are available for funding ahead of regulatory deadlines, as well.”
January 1 clean air deadline for state’s trucks and buses still effective
Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:34
Diesel regulations go into effect, no extensions will apply
California Air Resources Board, Release #:11-56, 12/21/2011, 1:53 PM
CONTACT: Mary Fricke, 916-322-2638,
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SACRAMENTO - The California Air Resources Board is reminding owners of heavier diesel trucks and buses that new emission reducing regulations go into effect January 1, 2012 and many businesses may need to report compliance on-line.
The regulation, adopted in 2008 and later amended in 2010, applies to all privately owned and federal government diesel trucks and buses that transport in California.
Last Thursday (Dec. 15) CDTOA counsel Brooks Ellison argued for a preliminary injunction as a separate action associated with our lawsuit against CARB’s Draconian On-road Truck & Bus regulations.
The arguments by CARB through the AGs office and the NRDC who are vigorously spewing the normal deception in support of the regulation appeared to be focused on the F4A's (federal preemption) safety exception and CARB's public health claims which have nothing to do with motoring public safety.
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, Land Line staff writer Dec. 19. 2011
Diesel in California will likely cost more money in the future because of requirements from a California regulation approved and amended Friday.
The California Air Resources Board voted to approve amendments to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard Friday. The fuel standard is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels 10 percent by the year 2020.
The fuel standard is designed to work with the state’s cap-and-trade-program, which limits emissions created by fuel companies, utilities and other businesses.
Clean Ports Act’ Would Empower Cities’ Ports to Put Cleaner Trucks on the Road, Reduce Pollutants, Improve Quality of Air for All New Yorkers
December 16, 2011
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) introduced legislation that would allow local ports, including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, to regulate and enforce fuel-efficient truck programs that go beyond current federal mandates. Under the Clean Ports Act of 2011, port cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Newark, Oakland and Seattle would have the authority to set standards, reduce emissions and improve air quality by replacing older diesel trucks with cleaner vehicles without imposing the burden onto truck drivers. Earlier this year, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, re-introduced the House version of the bill.
House investigative committee expands EPA fuel mileage probe to CARB
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:57
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Congress’ main investigative committee wants to know what agreements were made and whether laws were broken when the California Air Resources Board secretly negotiated a “historic agreement” with the EPA and automakers in 2009.
The House of Representatives Oversight Committee also wants to know how and why CARB reportedly had a gun to the head of automakers, and why CARB Chairman Mary Nichols told The New York Times that during the negotiations between the White House and California, “we put nothing in writing, ever.”
SPECIAL REPORT: Congress to CARB: Try answering mpg questions again
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:57
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Citing “inconsistencies,” a “lack of candor” and a decision to not fully cooperate with Congress’ top investigative committee, a powerful congressman is demanding answers from the California Air Resources Board regarding recent fuel mileage standards for cars and heavy trucks.
In a letter dated Dec. 19, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, fired the latest shot in a back and forth between Issa and CARB Chairman Mary Nichols.
CARB Verifies Cleaire LongMile System and Announces that the Truck & Bus Regulation Online Reporting System Now Operational
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has issued a verification for the Cleaire LongMile emission reduction system for heavy-duty on-road vehicles for certified heavy-duty diesel engines. This follows CARB's decision on September 16, 2011 to suspend the sale, installation, leasing or offering for sale the Cleaire LongMile diesel emission control strategies and its direction to Cleaire to take remedial actions. Click here to see a copy of the Executive Order and here to see additional information about the system.
CARB has also released the following information about the availability of the online reporting system required for the Truck and Bus Regulation. January 1, 2012 is the first compliance date for the regulation and January 31, 2012 is the reporting deadline for fleets that must report.
You’d think I would cease to be amazed at the "damn the facts, full speed ahead" MO exhibited by California's air pollution cabal.
And yet, here I sit, astounded once again.
Not only did an obscure but important committee in the bowels of the California Air Resources Board recently ignore dozens of pages of serious criticisms of a new pollution study, but at least one committee member seems to have zero understanding of how such studies are used to create regulations that affect all of us out here in real people land.
The Research Screening Committee should be where regulators, scientists and the public tear into a study's methodology and conclusions. Challenge the science and make it stand up, or ditch it.
Final Rulemaking Packages for On-Road Diesel Vehicles and Off-Road Equipment Regulations
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:42
To all,
It appears that we are less than 30-days from hearing whether or not CARB's On-road rule is good to roll-out onto those unfortunate to be subject to it.
I could tell you a bunch of steps to take to see the rule or just give you the link:
In addition to the smoke testing and engine label requirements that many are probably still not in compliance with, the rule will affect just about everyone in the state with a 26,000+ gvw diesel powered vehicle come January 1, 2012.
The key to eliminating our oppressive regulatory regime is simply to replace the existing bureaucracy rather than try to reform it. The current systems are so entrenched that we need to start over with new organizations and new people.
Overbearing bureaucrats are especially prominent at the Environmental Protection Agency. The arrogance, economic ignorance, and dictatorial attitude of the current organization are well known throughout much of America.
The EPA bullies and dictates to businesses, small towns, and states. It routinely tells states what they have to do and then claims not to be at fault when the states tell local communities and businesses they must comply.
