EPA’s offerings will replace, retrofit or repower about 8,000 older school buses, trucks, locomotives, vessels, and other diesel powered machines.
The agency said diesel engines emit 7.3 million tons of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and 333,000 tons of soot annually.
EPA’s standards reduce emissions from newly manufactured engines, clean diesel projects funded through these grants will work to address about 11 million older diesel engines that continue to emit higher levels of harmful pollution.
From 2008 to 2010, EPA has awarded nearly $470 million to more than 350 grantees across the nation under the diesel emissions reduction program.
Every state will receive funding for clean diesel projects through direct state allocations.
