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CARB issues emissions fines
By Dean Smallwood
The California Air Resources Board recently fined six companies, including several truck fleets, a total of $144,750 for violations of emissions regulations.
DS Waters of America, a bottled-water company based in Atlanta, was fined $74,250 for violations in Irvine, Lakeside, Orange, Riverside, Santa Ana, Temecula, Chico, Fresno, Manteca, Milpitas, Sacramento, Salinas, San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Bakersfield, Covina, Gardena, Lancaster, Los Angeles, Oxnard and Van Nuys.
The City of Pasadena was fined $23,250 for diesel emissions violations that occurred in 2005.
Baja Motorsports, a Tempe, Ariz., importer of off-road recreational vehicles from China, was fined $14,000 for improperly labeling its Blitz mini-bikes without California emissions certification labels. The bikes missing the labels were sold at Kragen Auto Parts stores statewide. Although the bikes are within California emissions standards, they were improperly labeled as being only federally certified. The fine is $50 per vehicle.
Universal Waste Systems of Santa Fe Springs was fined $13,500 for failing to inspect its diesel fleet for excess emissions. Universal Waste Systems also failed to retrofit its vehicles to meet the state’s Solid Waste Collection Vehicle rule, adopted in September 2003.
Henkels & McCoy, a construction company based in Blue Bell, Pa., was fined $10,000 for diesel emissions violations that occurred in 2006 and 2007 throughout California.
Don E. Keith Transportation was fined $9,750 for not conducting annual inspections of its heavy-duty diesel vehicles at its Bakersfield fleet center. |
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