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newsrel -- CARB fines three companies $726,000 for violating cargo handling equipment air quality rules

Posted: 15 Jun 2017 14:34:26
Please consider the following news release from the California
Air Resources Board:
https://arb.ca.gov/newsrel/newsrelease.php?id=937


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 15, 2017

NEWS RELEASE 17-43


CONTACT:

Karen Caesar
(626) 575-6728
karen.caesar@arb.ca.gov




CARB fines three companies $726,000 for violating cargo handling
equipment air quality rules 

$278,000 will help clean up school buses in San Joaquin Valley

SACRAMENTO - The California Air Resources Board has fined three
companies $726,250 for failing to comply with the state’s Cargo
Handling Equipment (CHE) Regulation. The regulation sets emission
standards for a range of equipment used mostly at ports and
railyards, including gantry cranes, yard trucks, and forklifts.

“Emissions from the ports can travel far inland but they have the
strongest impact on those who live and work near these busy trade
hubs,” said Todd Sax, CARB’s Enforcement Division Chief. “With
enforcement of the Cargo Handling Equipment Regulation, CARB has
been able to achieve a high compliance rate, significantly
reducing emissions of diesel air contaminants in port-adjacent
communities.”

Seaside Transportation Services, Penny Newman Grain Company, and
CEMEX Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, were all cited for
failing to ensure that their cargo handling equipment met the
requirements for reduced emissions under the cargo handling rule.
  

Seaside Transportation Services will pay a fine of $437,500 to be
divided equally between the California Air Pollution Control Fund
to support education and research, and the San Joaquin Valley Air
Pollution Control District for its school bus diesel emission
reduction Supplemental Environmental Project.

Penny Newman Grain Company will pay $170,625 to the California
Air Pollution Control Fund.

CEMEX Construction Materials Pacific, LLC will pay $118,125, to
be divided equally between the California Air Pollution Control
Fund and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District
for cleaner school buses. 

CARB has been vigorously enforcing the Cargo Handling Equipment
rule, adopted in 2009 and  amended in 2012. As a result,
compliance for yard trucks (heavy duty diesel trucks that move
containers within and between terminals) increased from 61
percent in 2012 to 89 percent by the end of 2015.  Compliance for
“non-yard” trucks (rubber tired gantry cranes, forklifts, etc.)
trucks increased from 44 percent to 92 percent over the same time
period.

Diesel exhaust contains a variety of harmful gases and more than
40 other known cancer-causing compounds. In 1998, California
identified diesel particulate matter as a toxic air contaminant
based on its potential to cause cancer, premature death and other
health problems.



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