Texas Gov. Gets $136 Million Bill To Help Clean Up Diesel Emissions

Diesel Fuel News, June 11, 2001

Gov. Rick Perry is expected to sign a bill that raises $136 million/year to pay for diesel emissions retrofits, cleaner vehicles and cleaner appliances in dirty-air cities (see Diesel Fuel News 3/19/2001, p9). The five-year program could easily top California's "Carl Moyer" emissions clean-up fund program (see Diesel Fuel News 5/14/2001, p6) and won U.S.

EPA praise as a "model for the nation," bill author Sen. Buster Brown (R) proudly noted. Diesel clean-up gets at least half the funds. Construction equipment operators could thus retrofit their machines with emissions devices in order to avoid early-hours operating bans in major cities, EPA figures.