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San Francisco: Clean Diesel Bus Program nearly complete

San Franciscans and neighboring Bay Area residents should be breathing a little easier these days. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the local transit systems are nearly finished retrofitting over 1,700 diesel buses with exhaust filters. Under the Clean Diesel Bus Program which began in 2003, these "high-tech emission control filters" prevent over 50 tons of harmful particulate matter and 436 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from being released into Bay Area air each year. At a ... Read more →

Californians could be in for a storm before the calm Sebastian Blanco

San Francisco: Clean Diesel Bus Program nearly complete 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Californians could be in for a storm before the calm 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Politicians are often criticized for promoting short-term solutions and forgetting about long-term gains. Today we read in Inside Bay Area about a California Assemblyman, Joe Nation, who is calling for a 25-cent tax increase on each gallon of gasoline to snap people into considering alternatives to ...

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