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Diesel Program Cuts Pollution but Faces Budget Cuts
2013-05-01 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: More than 50,000 high-polluting diesel engines have been cleaned up or removed from U.S. roads in a federal program designed to reduce smog and greenhouse gases, according to a new Environmental Protection Agency report to Congress. While industry and environmental officials call the program a success, it is now threatened with a 70 percent cut in funding under the Obama Administration's new budget. School buses and long-haul trucks accounted for almost 40,000 of the approximately 52,000 engines...
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