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Article: Chicago Transit Authority Turns to Air-Friendly Fuel for Its Buses.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- February 6, 2003
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By John McCormick, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 6--The Chicago Transit Authority will start using new emission-reducing diesel fuel by as early as summer in its nearly 2,000 buses in a move the agency says will help create a market in the Midwest for the pollution-reducing fuel.
The new ultralow-sulfur diesel, along with exhaust filters included on all newly purchased buses and gradually added to some existing buses, should dramatically reduce the soot and pollution spewed along Michigan Avenue and other busy bus routes.
In addition to the fuel changes approved Wednesday, the transit board approved spending up ...