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Article: Proposals to reduce diesel fuel emissions would prove costly
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- June 20, 2000
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Diesel fuel would be more expensive and less
abundant under federal proposals aiming to reduce diesel fuel
emissions, trucking and refining industry officials say.
The price of diesel fuel has stayed consistently lower than
unleaded fuel throughout the recent fuel price hikes. But that might
change under a proposal last month by the Environmental Protection
Agency aiming to enact the most stringent pollution controls ever
imposed on large trucks and passenger buses.
The plan would cut soot and sulfur levels in diesel fuel as well
as the gas that causes smog. The EPA also is proposing that heavy
trucks use the same pollution control devices -- catalytic converters
and ...