Diesel accounts for more than 70% of the cancer-related effects of air pollution in Southern California.
In California, the transportation of goods is a major economic driver, with the vast majority of vehicles relying on petroleum-based gasoline and diesel.
Nichols led a panel that was part of the Los Angeles Business Council’s Sustainability Summit at USC. “If we are not doing something about that, we are damning a whole lot of people to cancer and potentially death,” he said. Bertani said regulatory agencies, nonprofits and private companies like his all need to work together if they wish to see the transition to greener technology happen more quickly.
“Why not just overlay where all the diesel stations are today that truckers go to to fill up, and start putting … fueling and charging right there? Easier said than done, but it’s a pretty decent map by which to start,” Seroka said. “The numbers are pretty huge and staggering and when you think about 2045, it’s not that far away,” Parson said. “What utilities need to do is, we need to deploy grid infrastructure at an unprecedented scale in an unprecedented timeline.”
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