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"GREEN" NEWS * USA - Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel: A Year Later
This year: Sulfur oxide emissions from heavy-duty trucks will decrease by more than 100,000 tons and carbon monoxide emissions by more than 70,000 tonsUSA - TruckingInfo -11 Oct 2007: -- Monday will mark the one-year anniversary of ultra low sulfur diesel's arrival at U.S. fueling stations nationwide... Initial concerns about fuel availability and the performance of heavy-duty trucks designed specifically for ULSD have waned, thanks to an absence of problems transitioning to the clean diesel system, according to the Diesel Technology Forum... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that this year, thanks to a combination of cleaner diesel fuel and new engine technology, sulfur oxide emissions (a contributor to acid rain) from heavy-duty trucks will decrease by more than 100,000 tons and carbon monoxide emissions by more than 70,000 tons... However, the most significant benefits of clean diesel will be realized when new trucks have largely replaced the existing fleet in 2020. At that time, EPA predicts 2 million fewer tons of nitrogen oxides (or NOx, a component of smog) and 83,000 fewer tons of fine particulate matter (or soot annually), thanks to clean diesel... A 2007 diesel truck emits just one-sixtieth the soot exhaust of one produced in 1988...
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