Overview: Reduced Idling Truckstops

The Oregon Solutions project will help to bring partners together as stakeholders to discuss opportunities and barriers to reducing truck idling at commercial truck stops on I-5.

Project Documents and Press Releases

• Climate Trust Truck Stop Electrification Website
• Reduced Idling Truckstops Declaration of Cooperation [pdf]
• KATU Channel 2 "Portland truck stop going green," 25 July 2007
• Oregon Public Broadcasting: "Global Warming Plan includes Electric Truckstop," Ley Garnett, Oregon Considered, 16 December 2004
• DEQ in the News Today: "Truckers Say Goodbye to Idle Time," from The Mail Tribune (Medford), 26 May 2004
• DEQ/Governor's Truck Stop Event Facts Sheet [pdf]
• Climate Trust, 13 September 13 2004 presentation [pdf]
• Climate Trust 25 October 2004 presentation [pdf]
• DEQ PowerPoint presentation [pdf]
• OSU Kiewit Center for Infrastructure & Transportation PowerPoint presentation [ppt]
• Climate Trust Commits $2.2 Million to purchase Carbon Offsets from Reduced Diesel Pollution at Truck Stops [pdf]
• ECOStates: "Saving Energy, the Environment, and a Good Night's Rest: Oregon's Approach to Truck Idling" by Kevin Downing [pdf]
• DEQ Air Quality

Project Contacts

• Convener: Gail Achterman, Institute for Natural Resources, Director
• Oregon Solutions Project Staff: Kevin Downing and Pete Dalke