Environmental Toxins: EPA Testing Gives Approval to Nonroad Diesel Equipment

The Environmental Protection Agency has completed their first emissions tests for construction, agriculture, and industrial diesel-powered engines to confirm environmental data supplied by engine manufacturers are correct. These nonroad diesel engines must meet the requirements of the EPA's Clean Air Nonroad Fuel as soon as 2008.

EPA Testing Shows Nonroad Diesel Equipment Meets Tough New Limits

Nonroad diesel engine testing is a part of the EPA's responsibility to make sure that the rules set forth by the Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule are met. The Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule was finalized in 2004 and is speculated to prevent an estimate 12,000 premature deaths each year and hundreds of thousands fewer cases of respiratory problems.