Washington state to expand clean-diesel school bus retrofits, ULSD

Diesel Fuel News, May 12, 2003

The five-year, $18 million funding bill just approved by state legislature will allow school bus fleets in the state's most populated area (Puget Sound) as well as statewide to clean-up diesel emissions with catalyst retrofits and ultra-low sulfur diesel, explains Puget Sound Clean Air Agency executive director Dennis McLerran.

"We worked hard to secure this funding and it is a nice extension of other retrofit projects in Washington which now include Metro Transit, King County, City of Seattle, Sound Transit, Community Transit, Kitsap Transit, Skagit Transit, What-com Transit, City of Tacoma, Port of Seattle and waste hauling fleets and construction projects," McLerran told Diesel Fuel News. A pilot clean-diesel technology project is also underway with Washington State Ferries.