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Sep 2, 2017

STOCKTON — The long haul toward cleaner transportation in the notoriously polluted San Joaquin Valley continues with the recent announcement of nearly $5 million in funding for two new locomotives in the Stockton area.

While locomotives don’t account for nearly as much pollution as cars and trucks, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District considers them a “significant portion” of the problem. In total, mobile sources account for about 80 percent of the dangerous pollution.

The air district is contributing $1.8 million for the new locomotives, which emit about 90 percent less pollution than their predecessors. About $3 million will come from other sources.

One of the trains will be used by Metropolitan Stevedore Co., a tenant at the Port of Stockton, replacing an engine built in 1984. The second will go to Omni TRAX Inc. on the east side of the city; that engine was built in 1963.

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