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Officials at the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) and Bay Area Air Quality Management District on May 23 commemorated the completion of WETA’s $5.5 million Gemini Class Clean Air Conversion Project, an effort to convert the engines of four vessels into cleaner ones. The updates, completed throughout much of 2022 and 2023 at JT Marine in Vancouver, Wash., are expected to significantly lower air emissions from ferries that operate in Oakland, Alameda and Richmond. Built about 15 years ago with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tier 2 engines, the four ferries now have the cleanest available…