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EL MONTE, CA - Navistar International Corp. announced the U.S. EPA and CARB presented preliminary proposals aimed at the compliance loopholes found in current 2010 liquid-based SCR systems.

Tags: CARB, EnSIGHT, EPA, Navistar, SCR

COLUMBUS, IN - Cummins Inc. announced it received certification from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (ARB) for its ISX11.9 diesel engine.

Tags: CARB, Cummins, engine, EPA, ISX11.9

WARRENVILLE, IL - Navistar International Corporation withdrew a lawsuit previously filed against the California Air Resources Board (CARB) following an agreement with CARB that addresses the issues that prompted the court action.

Tags: CARB, Lawsuit, Navistar

STOCKTON, CA - The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved Electric Vehicles International's (EVI) fully electric return-to-base medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

Tags: CARB, Electric Vehicles International, Freightliner, rebate

LOS ALTOS, CA - Baytech Corporation obtained model-year 2010 Environmental Protection Agency and California Air Resources Board emissions certifications for Baytech's dedicated compressed natural gas fueled General Motors full-size vans and pickups.

Tags: Baytech, CARB, CNG, EPA

SACRAMENTO - Have trucks in California? You'd better get to your dealer fast, because the California Hybrid Voucher Incentive Program is open for business. On February 4th, the landmark program officially opened.

Tags: CALSTART, CARB, hybrid, incentive

SACRAMENTO - A potential shut-down of the Port of Oakland by harbor truck drivers was averted Jan. 4 when the California Air Resources Board (CARB) pledged to give truckers $11 million in grant money to meet new emissions standards.

Tags: CARB, Clean-Diesel Truck, grant money

LOS ALTOS, CA - Baytech Corporation obtained 2010 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) emissions certifications for Baytech's dedicated compressed natural gas (CNG) fueled 6.0L heavy-duty engine that is used in General Motors, Isuzu, and Workhorse Custom Chassis heavy-duty vehicles.

Tags: Baytech, CARB, CNG Engine, EPA

PORTLAND, OR - Detroit Diesel Corporation has filed applications with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resource Board (CARB) for 2010 certification of Detroit Diesel DD13 and DD15 engines with BlueTec emissions control systems.

Tags: BlueTec, CARB, DD13, DD15, Detroit Diesel, SCR, U.S. EPA

SACRAMENTO - The California Air Resources Board is helping to accelerate the deployment of approximately 800 new hybrid medium- and heavy-duty vehicles by providing vouchers for the purchase of new hybrid trucks and buses.

Tags: ARB, CARB, grant funds, grant solicitation

WASHINGTON - A new study shows that clean diesel technologies in engines manufactured beginning in 2007 not only reduced certain emissions by 90 percent over 2004 models, but far exceeded expectations in their performance in cleaning up the nation's air quality.

Tags: American Trucking Associations , ATA, CARB, emission reduction, Engine Manufacturers Association, EPA Smartway Transport Partnership, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc

WARRENVILLE, IL - Navistar becomes the first truck and bus manufacturer to receive total hybrid vehicle certification from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for improving fuel economy and overall emissions.

Tags: AB118, CARB, hybrid, Navistar

PORTLAND, OR – Daimler Trucks North America celebrated the delivery of 132 new natural gas (NG)-fueled tractors to drivers who contract with California Cartage Company and 100 new NG trucks for the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles’ Clean Truck Program.

Tags: California Cartage, CARB, Daimler Trucks , Natural Gas, SCAQMD

SACRAMENTO, CA – Mack Trucks Inc., Cummins Inc., and Volvo Trucks North America have received certification that their heavy-duty engines meet California’s nitrogen oxide emission standards, providing users an exemption from the state’s five-minute idling regulation.

Tags: CARB, Cummins Inc. , Idling Rule, Mack, Volvo Trucks North America

ORLANDO, FL – Cummins Inc. has made available its Clean Idle Certified on-highway engines, which meet the new California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) idle reduction regulation.

Tags: CARB, Clean Idle, Cummins