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EPA Announces $7 Million in Funding to Reduce Diesel Emissions from School Buses
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of approximately $7 million in funding for rebates to public and private school bus fleet owners for the replacement and retrofit of older school buses. Replacing these buses that have older engines will reduce diesel emissions and improve air quality. "Our kids spend a lot of time on the school bus, and buses spend a ...
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EPA Announces $7 Million in Funding to Reduce Diesel Emissions from School Buses
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the availability of approximately $7 million in funding for rebates to public and private school bus fleet owners for the replacement and retrofit of older school buses. Replacing these buses that have older engines will reduce diesel emissions and improve air quality. “Our kids spend a lot of time on the school bus, and buses spend a ...
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Grace Hill Settlement House, EPA region 7 sponsor May 20 event to show diesel emission reduction plans for St. Louis
EPA Region 7 and Grace Hill Settlement House will host a public event May 20, offering exhibits and information about Grace Hill’s plans for a US$2 million project aimed at reducing diesel emissions and improving air quality in St. Louis. Grace Hill received US$2 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to implement the diesel emission reduction project. ...
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EPA Announces $7 Million in Funding to Reduce Diesel Emissions from School Buses
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of approximately $7 million in funding for rebates to public and private school bus fleet owners for the replacement and retrofit of older school buses. Replacing these buses that have older engines will reduce diesel emissions and improve air quality. "Our kids spend a lot of time on the school bus, and buses spend a ...
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EPA Announces $7 Million in Funding to Reduce Diesel Emissions from School Buses
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of approximately $7 million in funding for rebates to public and private school bus fleet owners for the replacement and retrofit of older school buses. Replacing these buses that have older engines will reduce diesel emissions and improve air quality. "Our kids spend a lot of time on the school bus, and buses spend a ...
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EPA funding to reduce air pollution from ferries operating between New Jersey and New York
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is helping to reduce air pollution in the New York metropolitan area by providing the New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition with $896,838 to replace 21 engines on eight ferry and excursion boats that operate between New Jersey and New York with cleaner technology. The clean diesel projects will improve air quality in urban areas of New Jersey and New York ...
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EPA awards nearly US$2 million to Chelsea Collaborative to reduce diesel emissions and create jobs
Significant funding from the Recovery Act will help the Chelsea Produce Market to dramatically reduce diesel emissions, improving air quality in a busy urban shipping center, protecting health for thousands of Boston-area residents. In a move that stands to protect and create jobs, boost the local economy and reduce diesel emissions, EPA has awarded more than US$1.56 million to the Chelsea ...
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Air quality impact of diesel ‘severely underestimated’
Hydrocarbons are precursors to hazardous air pollutants including ozone and particulate matter. Hydrocarbons from diesel make up over 50% of all hydrocarbons in the air in London, a new study has found. The authors also estimate that they contribute up to half of total ozone production potential in London, and say future air quality control strategies must focus more on these pollutants. Around ...
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Johnson Matthey`s new CRT®(+) Diesel Particulate Filter for Stationary Diesel Engines verified by California Air Resources Board
The California Air Resources Board (CARB), Sacramento, Calif., has verified Johnson Matthey’s new CRT®(+) diesel particulate filter (DPF) as a Level 3 Plus system capable of reducing particulate matter (PM) by 85% or greater and not increasing nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions beyond the 2009 limit of 20% of baseline NO2 emissions.As the global pioneer and leader in controlling emissions from ...
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EPA Awards Grant to Reduce Respiratory Hazards from Diesel Emissions in Puerto Rico
Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $1.4 million Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant to the University of Puerto Rico – Medical Sciences Campus. The grant provides funding to replace a number of old heavy duty drayage trucks. The university is also developing seminars and resources for diesel vehicle owners and the general public in Puerto ...
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Leonardo academy facilitates clean diesel projects for wisconsin school bus fleets
Every day tens of thousands of school children across Wisconsin ride on school buses that utilize diesel fuel, exposing them to hazardous pollutants and increasing their potential to suffer from adverse health effects. Leonardo Academy, through a grant provided by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program, is facilitating efforts to reduce ...
By 3BL Media
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EPA funding to reduce air pollution from trucks operating in Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is helping to reduce air pollution in and around the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico by providing the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico with $886,095 to install pollution reduction technology on 72 heavy-duty trucks and replace 10 old heavy-duty trucks with 2010 or newer less polluting models. The university will also raise awareness about the ...
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EU Adopts World’s First Test for Diesel Car Emissions ‘On the Road’
EU regulators have today agreed new test procedures that will, for the first time, measure the ‘real world’ emissions of diesel cars under the Euro 6 air quality standard. It will require vehicles to be tested on roads rather than in laboratories, overcoming obsolete tests and ‘cycle beating’ techniques used by carmakers to achieve results in tests many times lower than ...
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U.S. EPA Awards $3.2 Million to Reduce Diesel Emissions in California
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $3,258,639 in Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) funding to California to reduce diesel, greenhouse gas and black carbon emissions from large polluting diesel sources, such as trucks and buses. “By promoting clean diesel technologies, we can improve air quality, support green jobs, and fight global climate change,” said Jared ...
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US$3.5 million in recovery act funds to help cut diesel pollution, create jobs in port of Baltimore
The United States Environmental Protection Agency today announced the Port of Baltimore will receive US$3.5 million in Recovery Act funding to help clean the air in and around the Port. The Port will use the funds for clean-diesel technology in essential equipment used for harbor operations, creating jobs and reducing asthma rates and other respiratory illnesses. “Recovery Act dollars will help ...
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City of new bedford gets US$1 million for shore-side power electrification project
EPA is awarding US$1 million to the City of New Bedford’s Harbor Development Commission to install 16 shore-side electric power pedestals on two fishing piers within New Bedford Harbor. In addition, the project will provide up to 100 rebates issued to commercial fisherman to partially offset the cost of purchasing and installing necessary transfer switches to adapt their vessels to receive ...
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The energy challenge calls for solution-driven cooperation
The Greenpeace environmental organization has attacked Neste Oil’s use of palm oil very prominently recently. This confrontational approach has done little to promote sustainable development or work aimed at addressing the energy challenge, Neste Oil believes. Governments, consumers, and the business world are faced with a massive energy challenge. How to meet the growing energy needs of traffic ...
By Neste
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EPA to tackle emissions from trucks used at ports / EPA, industry leaders, and environmental groups to join forces for cleaner, healthier air around harbors
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), joined by the Coalition for Responsible Transportation and the Environmental Defense Fund, is launching a new initiative to protect people’s health, the environment and promote sustainable economic growth by reducing pollution from thousands of short-haul trucks that service the nation’s ports. The new EPA SmartWay initiative will green ...
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EPA midwest clean diesel leadership group presents awards for emissions reductions (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5’s Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative Leadership Group recognized people and organizations that have acted to reduce diesel emissions at a June 30 ceremony in Chicago. The MCDI Leadership Group awards recognize individuals and organizations that are innovators, role models and leaders in reducing diesel emissions through partnership-based projects. ...
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Clearing the Northwest’s air with clean diesel technology
Clean diesel technology is coming to the Northwest thanks to nearly $3.9 million in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grants for advanced diesel and heat recovery technology. Dennis McLerran, Regional Administrator for EPA Region 10, highlighted the grants at an event in Portland, Oregon showcasing the Northwest states’ grant recipients. The grants are funded under the Diesel Emissions ...
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