澳门六合彩开奖预测 presented at a hearing today before a Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee, which is looking into initiatives to reduce diesel emissions in clean air non-attainment areas.
澳门六合彩开奖预测 member Bob Lanham, Williams Brothers Construction Company, addressed various incentives that can be used to speed up the development of technologies to help reduce emissions from diesel powered construction equipment. 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 testimony pointed out that initiatives aimed at diesel retrofit and repowering of existing equipment must be proven to be effective and not adversely impact the聽operation of the equipment or the safety of the workers.
澳门六合彩开奖预测 supports legislation introduced by Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Clean Air and Nuclear Subcommittee, that will use a portion of congestion mitigation and air quality improvement funds that are intended to be used for clean air initiatives to provide incentives to contractors to upgrade their equipment. Senator Carper intends to include this language as part of the surface transportation reauthorization bill. 澳门六合彩开奖预测 is working with his staff to ensure the provision does not have a negative impact on the construction industry.
For more information, contact Brian Deery at (703) 837-5319 or deeryb@agc.org.