If Oregon and Washington follow California in regulating off-road diesel nitrogen oxide and fine particulate matter emissions, contractors may need to install pollution controls on their equipment or purchase replacements, according to warnings from The Associated General Contractors of America.
“There are a lot of different things in play, but in terms of actual, on-the-ground requirements, we haven’t seen them completely yet,” says Van Collins, legislative counsel for AGC of Washington in Olympia. “We expect to see more. California has been leading the way. Washington has looked in the past to the example of California.”