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Federal, California Regulators Urged to Deny Industry Petition to Delay or Reverse California Off-Road Diesel Rule

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Federal, California Regulators Urged to Deny Industry Petition to Delay or Reverse California Off-Road Diesel Rule

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Contact:
Janea Scott, 917-674-0513-c, jscott@edf.org 
Sean Crowley, 202-572-3331, scrowley@edf.org
 
(Los Angeles - January 5, 2008) Federal and state regulators should deny an industry petition to delay or reverse a California rule to clean up off-road diesel vehicles, including construction vehicles, said a senior attorney for Environmental Defense Fund today.
 
The comments came during an 11:00 a.m. news conference at the Los Angeles County Puente Hills Landfill to demonstrate off-road diesel vehicle retrofits funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB). The news conference also included EPA Regional Administrator Wayne Nastri, CARB Chair Mary Nichols and South Coast Air District Executive Officer Barry Wallerstein.
 
“Timely and efficient execution of the off-road rule is critical to the state meeting its clean air requirements and to saving and improving thousands of lives of California residents and workers on job sites,” said Janea Scott, a senior attorney for Environmental