The state of California joined an Inland Empire clean-air lawsuit as a defendant Oct. 13.
The California Trucking Association filed a lawsuit against the South Coast Air Quality Management District in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Aug. 5, alleging that the district’s new clean-air rule, which regulates warehouses based on their delivery trucks’ emissions, conflicts with federal law.
The rule, adopted May 7, requires warehouse operators to measure and offset their delivery trucks’ nitrogen oxide and diesel particulate matter emissions through nine options, including purchasing near-zero emission trucks or onsite solar panels, installing air filters in schools, houses, daycares, hospitals or community centers,
