GreenNews - USA - Keeping Diesel Clean
Rules for new ultra-low-sulphur fuel have distributors and retailers anxious
Philadelphia,PA,USA -Philadelphia Inquirer, by Harold Brubaker -1 June 2006: -- This year's third big change to the formulation of the nation's fuel supply kicks in today... The first two changes affected gasoline - reducing sulfur content in January and adopting ethanol as an additive in April... Now it's diesel's turn... Oil refiners now must take virtually all the sulfur out of most highway diesel fuel to help meet the Environmental Protection Agency's clean-air regulations... The EPA projects that the new diesel fuel with 15 parts per million of sulfur, down from 500 parts per million, will dramatically cut emissions of nitrogen oxides and other pollutants...
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