Public Presentation: Concepts For In-Use Locomotive Regulation

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Public Presentation: Concepts For In-Use Locomotive Regulation

California Air Resources Board (CARB) staff invites you to participate in a two-day public presentation to discuss locomotive technology and updates to the initial concepts for the new statewide in-use locomotive regulation.  

Materials will be posted on the Concepts to Reduce Emissions from Locomotives and Railyards webpage in advance. Information on submitting questions and comments will be provided during the presentations for remote participants.

The public presentations will be held on the dates and times shown below:

Day 1

DATE:           October 29, 2020
TIME:            9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (PST)
TOPICS:       Locomotive Technology, Truck v. Train, and ZE Strategies 

Register Day 1

 

Day 2

DATE:           October 30, 2020
TIME:            9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (PST)
TOPICS:       Regulatory Concepts, Health Impacts, and CEQA

     Register Day 2

 

Please use the links above to register and login to participate in the public presentations.  Participants will have the ability to submit questions via the Zoom interface to staff during the presentation.

If you have questions about the public presentations, please email Freight@arb.ca.gov.  If you need technical support during the public presentations, please message Alyssa Rhodes in Zoom.  For problems accessing the public presentations, contact Alyssa Rhodes. 

Background

In the absence of federal action to address harmful emissions from locomotives, CARB is developing regulatory concepts to reduce criteria pollutants, toxic air contaminants, and greenhouse gas emissions from locomotives in-use.  These concepts are intended to be implemented statewide, and provide an opportunity for the railroads to better address regional pollution and long-standing environmental justice concerns with communities near railyards. 

The goal of the regulatory concepts is to accelerate immediate adoption of advanced cleaner technologies for all locomotive operations.  The Governor recently highlighted the importance of transitioning to zero-emission transportation technology in his Executive Order N-79-20, which calls for 100 percent of off-road vehicles and equipment operations to be zero-emission by 2035.  CARB is working with industry to create and test zero-emission locomotive technologies.  As discussed in CARB’s Draft 2020 Mobile Source Strategy, such technologies are critical to the State’s ability to protect public health, address climate change, and meet both State and federal air quality standards.

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