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CLEAN TRUCKS PROGRAM

By WEBMASTER - Apr 26th, 2009 at 3:19 pm EDT

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Tags: California, carbon-fuel, CLEAN-ENERGY, Clean-Trucks-Program, diesel, green-energy, Natural-Gas, Petition, Pollution, trucks

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been working to replace old trucks burning dirty, imported diesel with new trucks running on clean, domestic natural gas.

The program has been working, but too slowly. The way these trucking companies rotate their fleets, this is the year when a huge percentage of the trucks will be replaced. They need to be replaced with trucks running on natural gas.

Click here to sign this petition to push forward the Clean Trucks Program.

In California there are 3,700 premature deaths every year due to air pollution. Pollution-related disease and medical conditions, including childhood asthma, costs Californians $19 billion per year.

Helping truckers trade trucks producing diesel fumes that everyone has to breathe – especially children and the elderly – for new trucks which produce no particulate emissions and a fraction of greenhouse gas emissions is an excellent investment for California. It will also be another example of California leading the country in protecting the environment.

Just the other day, California’s Air Resources Board approved regulations for its Low Carbon Fuel Standard which will have a real effect on reducing greenhouse gasses from petroleum-based fuels.

Click here to sign this petition to push forward the Clean Trucks Program.

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