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Environmental Defense Fund Welcomes EPA Clean Air Standards to Reduce Hazardous Diesel Pollution
March 15th, 2009
Environmental Defense Fund welcomes new clean air standards proposed by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to protect public health from about one million stationary diesel engines in operation today. The emission standards would take effect beginning in 2013, reducing emissions of hazardous volatile organic compounds, lethal particulate pollution, carbon monoxide, and oxides of nitrogen. Stationary diesel engines would also be required to use ultra low sulfur diesel fuel, a cleaner fuel broadly deployed today in the nation's mobile diesel fleet. "Cleaning up these engines is one of the most important actions EPA can take to protect public health," said Dr. John Balbus,...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2009-03-15)
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