The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded $5.6 million for emerging technologies projects as part of a summer-long roll out of $120 million in clean diesel grants. The awards will provide opportunities to advance cutting-edge technologies in the marketplace, and support both environmental innovation and green jobs to reduce diesel emissions.
“We’re playing to America’s strengths of ingenuity and invention to improve the future of our economy, our health and our environment,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.
Most clean diesel grants involve widely used strategies such as retrofits or replacements. However, the emerging technologies program promotes deployment of innovative approaches that have not yet been verified or certified by the EPA or the California Air Resources Board. Instead, the program enables evaluation of these promising technologies in the field.
Recipients of the emerging technologies grants are:
Throughout this summer, the EPA is awarding a total of $120 million under the diesel emissions reduction program (often known as DERA) to help lower exhaust from the existing fleet of 11 million diesel engines in communities nationwide. Grants included under DERA, in addition to the emerging technologies grants, are:
For more information on the National Clean Diesel Campaign, go to www.epa.gov/cleandiesel.
