About West Coast Collaborative

• Mission Statement
• About the Collaborative
• Organization
• EPA's Current Diesel Grant Programs
• Partners
• Fact Sheets

Mission Statement

West Coast Collaborative (WCC) is a partnership between organizations committed to reducing medium- and heavy-duty diesel emissions and advancing clean air technologies, policies, and practices across Western North America.

About the Collaborative

WCC seeks to reduce medium- and heavy-duty diesel emissions through the deployment of verified and certified technologies, engines and practices, and advanced technologies. We share information, training opportunities, planning, policy development, and funding opportunities related to reducing diesel emissions.

WCC is focused on creating, supporting, and implementing diesel emissions reductions projects and policies. To accomplish this goal, WCC:

• Highlights successful state, tribal, local, and regional diesel emissions reduction activities; and
• Creates a forum for information sharing among diesel emissions reduction stakeholders, and works to leverage significant new resources to expand diesel emissions mitigation efforts; and
• Implements projects in the most impacted communities, leverages funds from a variety of sources, achieves measurable emission reductions, and creates momentum for future diesel emissions mitigation efforts; and
• Works with a government steering committee to inform goals and priorities for WCC’s work.

Organization

The Collaborative is organized around seven sector workgroups:

• Agriculture
• Aviation
• Construction and Non-Road
• Locomotive and Rail
• Ports
• Public Fleets
• School Buses
• Trucking

EPA's Current Diesel Grant Programs

Since the founding of the WCC in 2004, EPA has administered many grant programs to decrease diesel emissions in the US. For example, in 2005, the Energy Policy Act began the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Program for EPA to administer grant funding to decrease the nation's diesel emissions. Since, EPA has received DERA funding every year, along with a variety of other funding programs. Currently, EPA is administering funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in addition to DERA.

• EPA's DERA Program
• BIL's Clean School Bus Program
• IRA's Clean Ports Program
• IRA's Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicle Program

Partners

WCC's partners include federal, state, local, tribal, local and U.S. territorial and agencies; non-profit organizations; the private sector; and academia. These partners represent areas across Western North America, including Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Washington, Federally Recognized Tribes and Native Villages, the Territory of Guam, the Territory of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Canada, and Mexico.

Fact Sheets

Learn more about the projects the Collaborative has supported and the successes of our work.

• Fact Sheet: West Coast Collaborative Overview (pdf) (97.94 KB, August 2021)
  Information about West Coast Collaborative (WCC), a public-private partnership focused on reducing diesel emissions throughout western North America and the U.S. Pacific Islands. WCC seeks to significantly improve air quality and public health by providing funding assistance to upgrade high-polluting diesel engines, vehicles and equipment with cost-effective emission control technologies.
• West Coast Collaborative DERA Grant Highlights 2019-2020 (pdf) (1.48 MB, September 2021)
  Summary of West Coast Collaborative's Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) 2019-2020 grants.