$1.5 MILLION SET TO CUT DIESEL POLLUTION.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Staff Writer VENTURA Ventura (vĕnt  `rə), city (1990 pop. 92,575), seat of Ventura co., SW Calif., on the Pacific coast in a farm and oil region; inc. 1866. - As part of a statewide program to curb ozone-damaging
emissions, Ventura County will receive more than $1.5 million in the
coming year to decrease emissions from diesel engines.
Gov. Gray Davis this year approved $50 million for the Moyer Moyer is a surname, and may refer to:
``This will really help the residents of Ventura County because the program requires us to use the funds to reduce (nitrogen oxides Noun 1. nitrogen oxide - any of several oxides of nitrogen formed by the action of nitric acid on oxidizable materials; present in car exhausts pollutant - waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil ) and diesel soot soot, black or dull brown deposit of fine powder resulting from incomplete combustion of fuel of high carbon content, e.g., coal, wood, and oil. It consists chiefly of amorphous carbon and tarry substances that cause it to adhere to surfaces. ,'' said Richard Baldwin, a Ventura County Air Pollution control officer. The funds, which must be applied for and generally are issued by the local Air Pollution Control District on a first-come, first-serve basis, go toward retrofitting old diesel engines or help pay the difference for purchasing a cleaner-burning, more expensive engine. ``The idea is to get all the pollution-emitting engines out of use in the next 10 years,'' said Air Resource Board spokesman Jerry Martin
Jerry Lindsey Martin (born May 11, 1949 in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.) is a former player in Major League Baseball. He is the son of major league pitcher Barney Martin. . The funds, however, are not guaranteed from one year to the next because they are taken from the state's surplus, Martin said. The engines the program targets most heavily are those used most throughout the year, such as the agriculture pumps that send water into the crops. ``We really want to get our hands on those,'' Baldwin said. ``And other engines that qualify are buses, trash trucks and boat engines.'' For information on applying for funds, contact the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District at (805) 645-1400. |
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