California Sets ‘Zero Emissions’ For Passenger and Freight Locomotives
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has enacted new regulations that will require “zero emissions” locomotives to be introduced after 2030, focusing on a sector often seen as a “green” alternative to cars and trucks
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
Under the new regulations, zero-emissions models will be required for all switch, industrial and passenger locomotives built after 2030 and for all freight line locomotives built after 2035. Any non-zero emissions locomotive that is 23 years old or more will not be allowed to operate in the state past 2030.
The regulations also require train operators to open a spending account by July 2024 that they must deposit into every year to purchase or lease cleaner diesel trains and buy zero-emissions infrastructure.
Operators that generate more pollutants are required to deposit more into the spending account, and the amount required to be deposited would also increase every year.
It is unclear how the new regulations on trains would affect interstate commerce, which is regulated by Congress under the U.S. Constitution, since many trains in California also travel through other states.
Last August, CARB finalized regulations that ban the sale of gas-powered cars in the state after 2035. California also plans to ban diesel and gas-powered trucks by 2040, and will require all-electric trucking fleets by 2042.
It is unclear how the state’s electrical grid will support all of the “zero emissions” vehicles demanded, since it is already struggling to provide enough electricity to charge a limited number of electric vehicles at peak demand.
The aim is to fight ‘climate change’ — not through directly affecting global climate, on which California has little impact, but to foster the development of ‘clean’ technology and encourage others to follow California’s example.
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Editor’s note: this is just the latest example of the all-pervading pointless virtue-signalling that seems to surround our lives now. The California governors seem to be firmly stuck in the land of fairy tales. It would serve those governors right if people like Amtrak and Union Pacific decided to withdraw services into California.
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Tom
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Looks like lines of immigrants miles long will be carrying goods on their back across stone age cally.
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T. C. Clark
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Callyfornia…the Land of fruits and nuts and….no end to bad ideas. I understand that the Cally legislature passes bills that are simply titles ….and the rules and mandates are filled in later by the gubment employees….Climate Change Bill?…..just fill it in later with whatever they dream up
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PhD
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As one of the escapees from CA to the red states, we are witnessing the Democrat caused destruction of a once great state….. sadly you can no longer trust the voting system in CA as it is corrupt and delivers only good news for the crooked Democrats.
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VOWG
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Way too many articles today show the complete insanity of our societies as they currently are devolving
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Herb Rose
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Hi VOWG,
Do you think that maybe some force is gathering all the human garbage in large coastal cities so they can be disposed of by earthquakes and tsunamis?
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Auntie Vaxina
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I hope the governors of states like TX, LA, AL and FL are enhancing their ability to handle increased freight by truck, boat and rail. Smart shipping companies will have to avoid California.
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Mark Luhman
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There is no such thing as zero emissions, everything requires fossil fuels to be built. Wind and solar cannot built themselves let alone anything else.
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