Mar 2, 2007 8:00 am US/Mountain
EPA Proposes Cuts In Train, Ship Diesel Exhaust
WASHINGTON (AP) ―
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EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson on Friday issued proposed emission standards for diesel locomotive engines, tugs, barges, ferries and recreational marine engines.
AP
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to reduce diesel exhaust from trains and ships, a move supported by some environmentalists.
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson on Friday issued proposed emission standards for diesel locomotive engines, tugs, barges, ferries and recreational marine engines. The toxic chemicals and soot in diesel exhaust can cause cancer.
"By tackling the greatest remaining source of diesel emissions, we're keeping our nation's clean air progress moving full steam ahead," Johnson said in a statement.
The standards, when adopted and fully phased in, would reduce particulate pollution from these engines by 90 percent and smog-forming nitrogen oxides by 80 percent, the EPA said.
The standards for new locomotive and marine diesel engines would be phased in starting in 2009 and take full effect a decade from now.
"EPA is clearly on the right track in proposing to address the dangerous diesel exhaust from trains and ships," said Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, who was joining Johnson in announcing the proposal at Port Elizabeth, N.J.
The proposed rule is similar to ones adopted by EPA since 2000 for large diesel trucks and buses, and for construction, mining and agricultural equipment, which cut diesel exhaust through the use of low sulfur diesel fuel and improved engine designs, the group said.
"Cleaning these engines up will prevent death and disease," said Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch advocacy group.
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