Regulation focuses on Southern California warehouses to improve air quality, reducing pollution from freight and logistics hubs

Electric truck fleet and charging station at NFI Industries in Ontario. (Spectrum News/Vania Patino)

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles and Long Beach region has the worst ozone pollution in the nation, according to a study by the American Lung Association.

The booming warehouse industry in Southern California has raised environmental concerns over the air pollution created by the trucks that go in and out of these hubs.

In response, the South Coast Air Quality Management District implemented a program in 2021 aimed at incentivizing companies to help reduce their emissions.


What You Need To Know

  • The South Coast Air Quality management district has implemented a program aimed at incentivizing companies to help reduce their emissions
  • The program is called Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions or WAIRE for short Warehouse operators in Southern 
  • California must earn a certain number of points each year based on the number of truck trips to their warehouse
  • NFI industries, is one of the companies impacted by the ruling that has already taken action by adopting electric truck fleets

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Funding Partners

JETSI is jointly financed by California Air Resources Board and California Energy Commission ($26.98 million), MSRC ($8 million), and South Coast AQMD ($5.4 million), with an additional $21.7 million from Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles, Southern California Edison, NFI, and Schneider. JETSI is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment, particularly in disadvantaged communities.