EPA Seeks to Reduce Diesel Emissions to Help Air Quality at Mexico Border

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he United States seeks to encourage trucking companies to reduce exhaust emissions as a way of improving air quality at the southern border and hopes to enlist the aid of Mexico in a coordinated effort, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said.

Carey Fitzmaurice, a senior policy analyst with the EPA, told Transport Topics the agency planned to provide financial incentives in the El Paso, Texas-Ciudad Juarez region that could involve large trucks.

“We are ready to tackle the international impact of air quality and that could mean that we will be retrofitting trucks there,” Fitzmaurice said.

itzmaurice said the U.S.-Mexico Border Air Quality Strategy, which is under the EPA, was not providing any new money for pilot projects but was bringing groups together and helping them find funding.

The projects would also focus on factory and power plant emissions along the border, he said.

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