New rule aim at diesel soot in air

  • 11/05/2004

  • International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)

The Bush administration has announced new regulations that will significantly reduce emissions from tractors, bulldozers, locomotives and other nonroad vehicles propelled by diesel fuel that, altogether, spew more soot than the United States' fleet of cars, trucks and buses. Michael Leavitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said after a meeting with President George W. Bush that the regulations would be made official setting in motion a plan for full compliance by 2012.