The City of Boston's Transportation and Air Quality (TAQ) Grants, administered by the Air Pollution Control Commission, provide funding to neighborhood, business, academic, and other groups for demonstration, education, research, and implementation projects related to reducing air pollution emissions from on-road and off-road motor vehicles.
The FY 2008 program is focusing on the installation of emissions-control equipment (retrofits)
for on- and off-road diesel vehicles. The City of Boston will pay half the cost, up to $9,999
to any one organization, for the installation of
EPA-verified equipment 
on pre-2007 diesel
trucks, buses, vans, bulldozers, backhoes, cranes, and other equipment. Applications are due
February 8, 2008, for the first round of funding. After that, applications can be submitted
as long as funding remains. See the Request for Proposals 
for details.
In FY 2007, the program's first year, the City, with matching funding from the Commonwealth's Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, awarded six TAQ grants totaling $200,000.
- ICLEI: Boston Clean Air Cabs Project.
- Consensus Building Institute; Asthma Regional Council; Greater Boston Breathes Better; Health Care Without Harm: Cleaning Construction: Reducing Air Pollution from Construction Vehicles at Boston Health Care Facilities.
- Harvard School of Public Health; Mission Hill Health Movement: The Influence of Traffic on Air Quality in Brigham Circle: A Community-University Partnership
- Dorchester Bay EDC, Codman Square NDC, Mattapan CDC, Southwest Boston CDC: Fairmount/Indigo CDC Environmental Justice Fellows Program: Building Tenant Leaders in High-Impact Vehicle Pollution Areas.
- Alternatives for Community and Environment; BOLD Teens; Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition; Greater Four Corners Action Coalition; Neighborhood of Affordable Housing: Air Pollution Hot Spot Network: Roxbury, Dorchester, and East Boston.
- Consensus Building Institute: Boston Air Quality Symposium Facilitation.
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