ADVISORY/EPA Administrator Christie Whitman to Visit Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, June 10, 2003.

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ADVISORY...For Tuesday Tuesday: see week. (June 10)

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2003

Highlights new idle control technology to help save fuel

and reduce air pollution from idling trucks

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Whitman will join with partners from U.S. Trucking Fleets and the Truck Stop Industry to introduce a technology that eliminates the need for truck drivers to idle their engines during extended rest or wait periods.

The technology, pioneered by IdleAire Technologies, Inc., a Knoxville, Tennessee-based company, is Georgia's first IdleAire Advanced Travel Center Electrification e·lec·tri·fy
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a. system. The introduction of technologies to minimize idling is a key component of SmartWay Transport, EPA's flagship program to reduce greenhouse gas greenhouse gas
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Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect.

greenhouse gas emissions from the freight transport sector.



    WHO: EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, Deputy Regional
        Administrator Stan Meiburg, IdleAire CEO Mike Crabtree, COO
        Tom Badgett, and President David Everhart, Petro Truck Stops
        COO Jim Cardwell,and local, state and federal officials.

    WHAT: Ceremony to highlight the installation of idle control
        technology that will help reduce air pollution and save fuel
        from idling trucks.

    WHAT: Petro Stopping Center
          I-285 & Bankhead Hwy (Exit 12)
          Atlanta, GA

    WHEN: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 at 2 p.m.

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