Filed under: Diesel, Legislation and Policy, USA



Everyone deserves clean air, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has never directly offered diesel emission reduction program assistance to tribal (aka Native American) entities before. This is what makes a new announcement from the EPA about a million dollars targeted at reducing emissions from older diesel engines a bit more interesting than usual.

As you can see in a new National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program request for proposals (PDF), tribal communities can now ask for help installing any number of emission control technologies, from cleaner fuels and upgraded engines to low rolling resistance tires to straight-up new vehicles. These cleaner diesel projects can improve a tribe's school buses, energy production generators or marine engines, among other options. The goal is to limit the things that make diesel a bad air creator: nitrogen oxides (NOX) and particulate matter (PM). As the EPA says, pollutants like those "are linked to serious health problems including asthma, lung and heart disease, other respiratory ailments, and premature death."

We've got more information in the press release below or you can go to the EPA's website.Continue reading First-ever offer from EPA to tribes for cleaner diesel vehicles

First-ever offer from EPA to tribes for cleaner diesel vehicles originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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