One of South Coast AQMD’s roles is to encourage the immediate use of commercially available, low, near-zero and zero emissions mobile and stationary technologies. A variety of financial incentives, which include grants for incremental funding, subsidies or vouchers, are designed to promote voluntary introduction of new technologies on an accelerated schedule. These incentives also provide manufacturers with justification to gear up for mass production of cleaner technologies.
-
Grants from the Carl Moyer Program for helping replace older heavy-duty diesels with cleaner technologies
Incentives for public school districts to purchase new alternative fuel school buses in order to retire their older polluting diesel buses and to replace expired alternative fuel bus tanks
-
Prop. 1B funding to reduce diesel air pollution from goods movement operations
Opportunities to generate mobile source emission reduction credits (MSERCs) that can be used to offset emissions from stationary sources
-
Funding assistance from the "SOON" program for the purchase of low-emission heavy-duty engines for off-road diesel fleet vehicles
The VW Mitigation Trust was part of a settlement with VW for using illegal defeat devices that resulted in excess emissions. It provides funding for zero emission and other clean technologies.
-
Help for fleets with ten or fewer vehicles to replace high-polluting vehicles with lower-emission ones or to install retrofit devices