* Connecticut: Urges pollution cuts from big highway trucks
--- According to the petition, truck engine emissions can be reduced by 90 percent through existing technology that costs between $500 and $1,000 per vehicle. A new tractor trailer cab alone can cost $130,000 to $260,000, and state officials argue that the emissions control upgrades wouldn't be a major cost factor... Connecticut officials say about 12.5 percent of the state's nitrogen oxide pollution is caused by big highway trucks, one of the largest single sources of nitrogen oxide pollution in the state... "Air pollution transported into Connecticut from upwind sources and emissions from diesel-powered trucks [is] beyond our jurisdiction and these petitions are part of our ongoing effort to have the EPA address these sources," Klee said...
(Photo: DOT: "Drivers, not the highway, are the problem") -- Hartford, CONN, USA -- The Hartford Courant, by Gregory B. Hladky - 7 June 2016Labels: trucks' pollution
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