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SF Bay Ferry commissions CARB-compliant ferry M/V Karl

San Francisco Bay Ferry last week commissioned the latest addition to its fleet, M/V Karl.
Built by Mavrik Marine in La Conner, Wash., It is the third of four vessels in the Dorado class, but is the first delivered to meet the new California Air Resources Board (CARB) commercial harbor craft emissions regulations.

It is powered by four U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tier 4 engines and is equipped with diesel particulate filters (DPF), a first in the passenger ferry industry. Among...

https://www.marinelog.com/passenger/ferries/sf-bay-ferry-commissions-carb-compliant-ferry-m-v-karl/

Maritime to EPA: Deny dangerous California DPF waiver request

The American Waterways Operators, the trade association of the American tugboat, towboat and barge industry, and three maritime labor unions have written a joint letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, asking that the EPA deny California’s request for a waiver from the Clean Air Act to enforce its dangerous and infeasible Commercial Harbor Craft (CHC) rule thar requires that vessels install Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) technology

In an attempt to...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/maritime-to-epa-deny-dangerous-california-dpf-waiver-request/

Industry makes progress in fight against dangerous CARB DPF requirement

In a major milestone for mariner safety in California, the California Senate Transportation Committee has voted 14-0 in favor of a measure that would prevent the California Air Resources Board (CARB) from enforcing a potentially deadly requirement in its harbor craft regulations. That requirement would force operators to install unproven and uncertified diesel particulate filters (DPF), widely seen as a fire hazard. The U.S. Coast Guard has already said that it won’t enforce the CARB DPF...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/industry-makes-progress-in-fight-against-dangerous-carb-dpf-requirement/

USCG won’t enforce controversial CARB CHC regulation

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) continues to get push back on a commercial harbor craft (CHC) regulation slammed as “unworkable” and “deeply flawed” by the American Waterways Operators (AWO), even before they went into force. AWO noted that, among other things, the CARB CHCn regulation mandates engine technology that is not available and is not certified as safe by the U.S. Coast Guard.

One of those technologies is the diesel particulate filters (DPFs) called for by the CARB...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/uscg-wont-enforce-controversial-carb-chc-regulation/