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South Coast Air Quality Management District Adopts Indirect Source Rule for Warehouses - Earlier this month, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD).
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A process four years in the making to regulate the emissions of truck traffic in and out of Southern California warehouses reached its end earlier this month with the adoption of a new rule that the warehouse industry says will ratchet up costs in the sector.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) approved the rule earlier this month. It is known as the Warehouse Indirect Source Rule (ISR). The goal of the rule is to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and diesel particulate matter emissions tied to warehouse activity.
SCAQMD has jurisdiction over stationary sources in the Southern California region. And while a truck moving in and out of a warehouse is not a stationary source, Bradley Whitaker, a senior public information specialist at SCAQMD, said in an email to FreightWaves that the agency has limited authority over mobile sources as we can regulate indirect sources, facilities that attract mobile sources, such as warehouses.
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The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) last Friday approved a Warehouse Indirect Source Rule, intended to curb diesel emissions from thousands of trucks transporting goods from the growing number of massive warehouses in the region. The rule institutes a points-based system requiring about 3,000 distribution centers to choose from a menu of options to reduce or offset emissions. Those could include replacing diesel trucks and other equipment with electric models, putting in rooftop solar panels, or installing air filters at nearby schools or day care centers. SCAQMD officials said they acted in order to meet federal emission reduction deadlines in 2023 and 2031. The Los Angeles County Business Federation said the rule amounts to an unauthorized job-killing tax and called the SCAQMD s action irresponsible and a travesty.