Media Advisory

For Immediate Release

Mayor Newsom to Spotlight Clean Diesel Bus Program

High-Tech Devices Capture Tons of Particulate Matter, Smog Precursors

Contact: 
John Goodwin, MTC 510.817.5862
Jack Colbourn, BAAQMD 415.749.4900
Dave Hyams, for Cleaire 415.296.2021

For Release: September 22, 2006

WHAT:
More than 1,700 diesel buses from 13 Bay Area transit agencies are being retrofitted with diesel exhaust purifiers manufactured by San Leandro-based Cleaire Advanced Emissions Controls. Nearly 1,400 buses already have been retrofitted. Most of the 340 remaining devices are scheduled for installation by the end of 2006. Combined, these high-tech emission control filters each year capture more than 50 tons of particulate matter and 436 tons of oxides of nitrogen, a precursor to ozone.

WHEN:
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
1:30 p.m.

WHERE:
Treasure Island
Great Lawn Parking Lot
(1/2 mile north of main entrance, facing Golden Gate Bridge)
San Francisco

WHO:
Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor
Jon Rubin, MTC Chair and San Francisco Mayor’s Representative
Jack Broadbent, Executive Director, Bay Area Air Quality Management District

VISUALS:
“White handkerchief demonstration” of clean emissions from diesel buses
operated by Bay Area transit agencies.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is the transportation planning, coordinating and financing agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) is the agency chartered with protecting air quality in the Bay Area.

 

 

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