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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

EPA Press Releases - Region 3: Workshop for W. Va. businesses and nonprofits on applying for EPA clean diesel grants


 

Contact: Bonnie Smith, 215-814-5543, smith.bonnie@epa.gov

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Workshop for W. Va. businesses and nonprofits on applying for EPA clean diesel grants

 

            PHILADELPHIA (September 29, 2009) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is hosting a workshop for businesses, industry and non-profit organizations to review the process for applying for federal clean diesel grants.  EPA is seeking projects in West Virginia that will reduce diesel emissions through equipment retrofits, the use of cleaner fuels or replacing older equipment for cleaner air.

 

Date:               10:30 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009

 

Location:        Marshall University’s Graduate College, Main Building – Room 319

                        100 Angus E Peyton Drive

South Charleston, W.Va

 

To register:    at http://www.marama.org/calendar/events/2009_10DieselProgram.html if you are having difficulty registering on line, you can call the 

                       Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association (MARAMA) at 443-901-1882.  The workshop is free, but registration in 

           requested.

 

           EPA’s clean diesel grants program funds a wide range of retrofitting, repowering, and diesel engine or diesel equipment replacement

           projects to reduce harmful air  pollution.

 

           The projects have included retrofitting school buses, replacing transit buses with diesel hybrids and repowering others, retrofitting dump

           trucks and harbor craft with diesel particulate filters, repowering a switch locomotive, and replacing cement trucks, dump trucks, fire

           trucks, and ambulances with new, more efficient vehicles.

 

To learn more about EPA’s Clean Diesel Program, go to www.epa.gov/cleandiesel.

 

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