CEwriter
Senior Member
Last Monday the California Air Resources Board (CARB) very quietly admitted that it had been wrong about off-road diesel emissions.
There will likely be revisions to the In-Use Off-Road Diesel rule (and perhaps some other diesel rules) at the board meeting in December, but don’t expect any apologies. It’s . . . complicated . . . when a government agency chokes one of its constituents’ most productive industries (in this case one state’s construction industry, mired in depression) with $13 billion in compliance costs and then your own data confirms the revelation that the regulation is based on wildly inaccurate assumptions.
It’s a long story. But kind of interesting, if you own diesel equipment.
Let me know what you think.
Larry
There will likely be revisions to the In-Use Off-Road Diesel rule (and perhaps some other diesel rules) at the board meeting in December, but don’t expect any apologies. It’s . . . complicated . . . when a government agency chokes one of its constituents’ most productive industries (in this case one state’s construction industry, mired in depression) with $13 billion in compliance costs and then your own data confirms the revelation that the regulation is based on wildly inaccurate assumptions.
It’s a long story. But kind of interesting, if you own diesel equipment.
Let me know what you think.
Larry