National
Desk
| April 16, 2003, Wednesday
E.P.A.
Plans Crackdown On Dirty Diesel Engines
By JENNIFER 8. LEE and ANDREW C.
REVKIN (NYT) 1139 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A ,
Page 10 , Column 5
ABSTRACT
- Environmental Protection Agency proposes
rules that would deeply cut soot, sulfur and
smog-forming polluion from diesel engines in
construction, farm and other industrial
equipment; rules would phase in over 10
years both cleanup of high-sulfur diesel
fuel and far stricter emission controls on
engines; Bush administration says shift
would cost about $1.5 billion a year, which
would be more than offset by savings of some
$16 billion to $80 billion a year from
prolonged lives and avoided health-care
costs; Admr Christie Whitman holds threat to
public health is clear and costs justified;
environmentalists laud proposals, which get
muted support from affected industry groups;
graphs (M) The Bush administration proposed
rules yesterday that would deeply cut the
soot, sulfur and smog-forming pollution from
diesel engines in construction, farm and
other industrial equipment.
Over the next decade, the proposed rules
would phase in both a cleanup of the
high-sulfur diesel fuel consumed by such
engines and far stricter requirements for
emissions controls on the engines
themselves.
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