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AIR QUALITY * USA - Trucks retrofitted to help air quality
Tucson, Arizona -The Arizona Daily Star -21 Feb 2009: -- In an effort to improve air quality along the Arizona-Sonora border, retrofit devices that reduce emissions have been installed on 55 cargo trucks owned by U.S. companies, Gov. Jan Brewer announced Friday... The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality initiative received a $145,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to equip the trucks, which cross the border several times a day. The devices reduce particulate-matter air pollution from diesel emissions by nearly 30 percent... The devices were installed free of charge to the truck owners by Phoenix-based Auto Safety House... EPA officials said the retrofit project is part of the Border 2012 program, a collaboration between the United States and Mexico to improve the environmental health of the estimated 12 million people living along the border. The binational program focuses on clean air, safe drinking water, reducing the risk of exposure to hazardous waste, and ensuring emergency preparedness in the region... (Photo by Aaron J. Latham / The Arizona Daily Star 2004 -Hundreds of trucks cross the U.S.-Mexico border each day. As a result of an Arizona Department of Environmental Quality initiative to help cut air pollution, emission-control devices were installed in 55 U.S.-owned trucks that make frequent daily border crossings)Labels: retrofitting trucks
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