{"content":[{"text":"NEWS \n Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association \n 1660 L Street, NW ˜ Suite 1100 ˜ Washington, DC 20036 ˜ tel: (202) 296-4797 ˜ fax: (202) 331-1388","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.050617,"width":0.763468,"height":0.195801}},{"text":"Contact: \n Dale McKinnon \n tel: (202) 296-4797","bbox":{"left":0.470588,"top":0.264453,"width":0.157644,"height":0.051929999999999976}},{"text":"Release Date: \n April 15, 2003","bbox":{"left":0.705882,"top":0.264453,"width":0.11502299999999999,"height":0.034279000000000004}},{"text":"MECA SUPPORTS U.S. EPA PROPOSAL TO REDUCE EMISSIONS FROM \n NONROAD DIESEL VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT","bbox":{"left":0.169216,"top":0.352938,"width":0.6615199999999999,"height":0.03450600000000004}},{"text":"Washington, DC – The Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (MECA) today voiced \n strong support for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) comprehensive and \n innovative proposed regulatory initiative to substantially reduce emissions from diesel-powered \n engines used in nonroad vehicles and equipment and to require the availability of very low sulfur \n nonroad diesel fuel. The proposal calls for a more than 90 percent reduction in both diesel \n particulate matter (PM) emissions and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions over current levels \n from most kinds of construction, agriculture, and industrial vehicles and equipment. Other \n categories of nonroad diesel engines will need to reduce PM emissions initially by up to 50 \n percent followed later by further additional reductions. The proposal also would require that \n diesel fuel sold for use by nonroad engines be reduced in sulfur content from current levels, \n which can be as high as 3000 ppm, to 500 ppm starting in 2007 and to 15 ppm in 2010.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.406044,"width":0.7628079999999999,"height":0.19329400000000002}},{"text":"“EPA’s bold initiative, if adopted and effectively implemented, will bring about the age \n of the truly clean diesel engine to the nonroad engine sector,” stated MECA Executive Director \n Dale McKinnon. “EPA correctly recognizes that to achieve the proposed significant emission \n reductions, a ‘systems’ approach will be needed, combining the best in engine advances, \n advanced integrated exhaust emission control technology, and low sulfur diesel fuel. The \n experience being gained optimizing technologies to meet the stringent PM and NOx emission \n standards for trucks and buses, which take effect in the 2007-2010 timeframe, will greatly \n facilitate efforts to meet the proposed nonroad engine standards.”","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.617862,"width":0.748804,"height":0.14034000000000002}},{"text":"Advanced PM and NOx exhaust emission control technology will play a critical role in \n meeting the challenging new standards. Technologies to reduce diesel PM, such as diesel \n particulate filters and diesel oxidation catalysts, are commercially available today. Indeed, the \n use of exhaust emission control technology for nonroad diesel engines is not new. For well over \n twenty-five years, nonroad diesel engines in vehicles in the construction, mining, and materials","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.776726,"width":0.7583359999999999,"height":0.08738499999999993}},{"text":"[MORE]","bbox":{"left":0.470588,"top":0.89218,"width":0.06957900000000006,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"April 15, 2003","bbox":{"left":0.768431,"top":0.89218,"width":0.11395100000000002,"height":0.01677899999999999}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.707647,"top":0.111288,"width":0.173337,"height":0.044091}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.707647,"top":0.111288,"width":0.173337,"height":0.044091}]}