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Jun 26, 2009

"GREEN" NEWS * USA - Study Finds '07 Diesels Cleaner

Reductions in diesel engine emissions far exceed expectations

Phoenix,AZ,USA -The Journal of Commerce -Jun 24, 2009: -- Clean diesel technologies in engines manufactured beginning in 2007 not only reduced certain emissions by 90 percent compared to 2004 models, but far exceeded expectations in their performance in cleaning up the nation’s air quality, a new study shows... Emission reductions by 2007 model engines “exceeded substantially even those levels required by law,” said the study, conducted by the Coordinating Research Council and the Health Effects Institute... Current engine models produced 98 percent less carbon monoxide, 10 percent less nitrogen oxide, 95 percent less non-methane hydrocarbons and 89 percent less particulate matter than required by EPA’s 2007 diesel engine emission standards...

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