The South Coast AQMD, Southern California's regional air quality regulator, has proposed a plan that could result in draconian new rules impacting the trucking industry, including: 

• South Coast-Only Truck and Bus Rules 
• Freight Facility Emission Caps at ports, railyards, warehouses/distribution centers, and airports

 

Among other changes, the agency also added a commitment to identify and consider new measures targeting oil refineries, ports, warehouses and other large facilities that are responsible for much of the pollution in the nation's smoggiest region.

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Though the overall approach remains similar, language in the revised plan emphasizes that the agency "will make full use of its legal authorities to seek a cleaner air future" and will give priority to "maximizing emissions reductions" using battery, fuel cell and other zero-emissions technologies where possible.

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The changes to the plan, presented at a governing board meeting in a ballroom at the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside, were greeted with skepticism and protest from environmentalists. They urged stronger measures to reduce smog-forming pollution, particularly from ports, rail yards, warehouses and other hubs of the bustling goods movement and logistics industry