Air regulators celebrate anti-fume initiative.Byline: The Register-Guard At a truck-stop ceremony on Thursday, Lane County air pollution regulators celebrated the ways they've found to reduce diesel fumes fumes odorous gases and other volatile materials; inhalation of irritating fumes causes coughing and, if sufficiently severe, irreversible pulmonary edema. . They also basked in the attention of Michael Leavitt, who's the top official at the federal Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and . Leavitt made a surprise appearance at the Coburg Truck 'n' Travel event. One Lane Regional Air Pollution Authority initiative is a $860,000 program to equip long-haul trucks plying Plying, in textile manufacture, is the activity of twisting, intermingling, or otherwise intimately combining two or more fibers or yarns into a combined yarn or fiber. Plying Yarns the Interstate in·ter·state adj. Involving, existing between, or connecting two or more states. n. One of a system of highways extending between the major cities of the 48 contiguous United States. Noun 1. 5 corridor with mini engines that truckers can use to keep their cabs comfortable while they sleep - rather than idle their main engines for hours, as they do now. The small engines use about 90 percent less diesel and produce about 75 percent less air pollution, compared with main-engine idling. The air agency is offering low-cost loans to truckers so they can buy the small engines, which cost about $10,000 per unit with installation. The Thursday ceremony was part of a broader announcement noting the West Coast Diesel Emissions Reduction Collaborative, a joint government/private sector effort the involves California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography to reduce diesel emissions from trucks, marine vessels and railroads rail·road n. 1. A road composed of parallel steel rails supported by ties and providing a track for locomotive-drawn trains or other wheeled vehicles. 2. . The program includes such goals as equipping 600 truck stop parking spaces along I-5 in Oregon with access to electricity, allowing resting truckers to turn off their engines and plug in instead. |
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