Four of California’s heavy-traffic trade corridors will benefit from $200 million in voter-approved Proposition 1B funds to help reduce emissions from heavy-duty trucks, locomotives and railyards, commercial harbor craft and other sources. The Los Angeles/Inland Empire, Central Valley, Bay Area and San Diego/Border regions were awarded the money from the California Air Resources Board. Specifically, funds will be used for truck upgrades as well as assisting owner-operators with complying with the state’s truck rules.

CARB Awards $200 Million to Reduce Emissions in State's Heavily Traveled Corridors

The California Air Resources Board on Thursday, June 24, awarded $200 million in Proposition 1B funds to cut emissions from heavy-duty trucks and other sources in the state’s four busiest trade corridors. The Los Angeles/Inland Empire, Central Valley, Bay Area and San Diego/Border regions received the Proposition 1B funds approved by voters in 2006. Previous Proposition 1B funds in 2008 provided $246 million to local agencies putting more than 5,000 cleaner trucks on the state’s roads.

“This money will help put cleaner trucks on our roads, cleaner locomotives in our railyards and cleaner harborcraft in our ports,” says CARB Chairman Mary Nichols. “Thanks to these funds, California communities located in busy freight transport areas will see the public health payoff much sooner, and our children will be exposed to fewer toxic emissions from older, dirty diesel equipment.”

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