EPA Would Cut Air Toxics from Gasoline, Vehicles, Containers
Environment News Service, March, 2006 by staff
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> Toxic fumes from gasoline, vehicles and portable gas containers would be reduced over the next 25 years under proposed new emissions standards announced late Wednesday by U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson.
The EPA's proposed Mobile Source Air Toxic (MSAT) regulations would lower emissions of benzene and the other air toxics in three ways. They would lower benzene content in gasoline, reduce exhaust emissions from passenger vehicles operated at temperatures below 75 degrees Fahrenheit, and reduce emissions that evaporate from, and permeate through, portable gasoline containers.
The proposed MSAT standards would take effect in 2011 for fuel requirements, 2010 for passenger vehicles, and 2009 for fuel containers.
The EPA issued...
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