Campaign Update

This March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new standards to reduce diesel pollution from the nation’s trains, boats, and ships, which are large, long-overlooked pollution sources.  Diesel pollution contributes to lung cancer, heat attacks, asthma attacks, strokes, and premature deaths. EPA’s proposal covers engines used in locomotives and marine vessels, such as small fishing boats, tug boats, barges, and ferries.  These engines have very weak, if any, pollution controls and, as a result, are among the dirtiest diesels in the nation.