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EcoNews - USA - Diesel vehicles to reduce emissions by 90 percent
Greensboro,NC,USA -Greensboro News Record, by Sanhita Sen -August 12, 2006: -- Story: Clinton Manchester, 77, used to wear a mask whenever he left the house. His wife Donnie, 73, didn't leave home at all... The couple, who both suffer from asthma, lived in a house on a street corner in Mount Airy that's near a rock quarry, two highways and a stop sign where Clinton estimated 15 to 20 diesel trucks stopped every few hours, heaving fumes all over their house... Solution: But over the next few decades, that smoke will become a lot less harmful, thanks to EPA regulations taking effect Jan. 1. The new standards, aiming to dramatically reduce air pollution by 2030, will require heavy-duty diesel vehicles to run on cleaner fuel and with more environmentally friendly engines...
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