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Article: All-terrain vehicles make slow progress. (Updates).
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Many environmentalists, including the group Bluewater Network, were disappointed last September when the Bush administration issued what some considered to be weak emissions standards for personal watercraft--such as Jet Skis--snowmobiles and other all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). The Environmental Protection Agency says that phasing in the mandated 50 percent reduction in ATV emissions over a 10-year period will prevent the annual production of more than two million tons of pollution.
Public Lands Associate Katy Rexford of Bluewater says Bush should do more to encourage manufacturers to make more ATVs with four-stroke engines. ...