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arbcombo -- Final Freight Locomotives Technology Assessment Released for Public Comment
Posted: 07 Dec 2016 11:08:26
The California Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) announces the release of the final document “Technology Assessment: Freight Locomotives.” This technology assessment considers potential advanced locomotive technologies that could operate on the existing rail network with emissions well below the current national Tier 4 emission levels. ARB staff assessed several technologies that could potentially exceed Tier 4, and possibly achieve near-zero to zero emission levels in the future. These technologies include: Newly-built or retrofit of aftertreatment with on-board batteries, fuel cells (Proton Exchange Membrane or Solid Oxide with Gas Turbine); battery-powered locomotive or battery tenders; and freight railroad electrification. The technology assessment can be viewed and downloaded from the ARB’s technology and fuels assessment webpage at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/tech/report.htm If you have questions regarding the final technology assessment on freight locomotives, please contact Ms. Sydney Vergis, Manager, Goods Movement Program Section, at (916) 327-5983, or at Sydney.Vergis@arb.ca.gov Background: California has made substantial progress in reducing emissions from mobile sources, but further reductions are needed to meet California’s air quality and climate goals. These goals include: •Meeting 2023 and 2031 ambient ozone air quality standards, which staff estimates will require an overall 80 percent reduction in NOx emissions below today’s levels in the South Coast air basin, with substantial reductions needed in the San Joaquin Valley and other non-attainment areas of the state as well; •Meeting the newly-proposed federal ozone standard; •Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020; •Achieving a 40 percent reduction in GHG emissions from 1990 levels by 2030; •Achieving an 80 percent reduction in GHG emissions from 1990 levels by 2050; •Reducing petroleum use in cars and trucks by up to 50 percent by 2030; and •Producing at least 50 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. You are receiving this single arbcombo email because you are a subscriber to or have made a public comment to one or more of the following lists: ej, gmbond, loco, railyard, sfti.