The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue separate rules affecting diesel emission in rural Alaska villages later this year.

The EPA has regulations to reduce emissions from on-highway vehicles by 2007. But rural villages, where low-sulfur -diesel fuel is hard to come by, may get a delay until 2010.

Last week, EPA issued regulation to reduce diesel emissions from non-highway vehicles by 2010. Diesel emissions are linked to premature deaths, lung cancer, asthma and other serious respiratory illnesses.

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Villages could get break on low-sulfur diesel rules (The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 5/18)

Relevant Links:
Clean Diesel Programs - http://www.epa.gov/cleandiesel

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