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EPA's Clean Diesel Campaign * USA - Could Drive Business to Truck Dealers
Norcross,GA,USA -Associated Construction Publications -23 March 2009: -- A new initiative from the Environmental Protection Agency designed to reduce diesel emissions and improve air quality could help drum up business for the nation's struggling medium and heavy-duty truck dealers... The EPA's National Clean Diesel Campaign has launched a competitive grant program to help public agencies, such as state governments and municipalities with jurisdiction over transportation and air quality issues, reduce diesel emissions from their fleets.
"Although commercial truck dealers are not eligible for direct funding, dealers can benefit indirectly by retrofitting diesel trucks already in use or selling new trucks to agencies that receive grant money," says Doug Greenhaus, director of environment, health and safety for the National Automobile Dealers Association... The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 17, includes $300 million to support clean diesel activities to retrofit or replace not only commercial trucks, but also buses, marine engines, locomotives and non-road engines; and vehicles used for construction, cargo handling (including ports and airports), agriculture, mining and energy production...
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