Newspaper editorials pushing more aggressive ULSD, clean-diesel standards

Diesel Fuel News, May 12, 2003

New York's Newsday urges the New York assembly to speed-up ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) deadlines to end-2005 rather than waiting until EPA's mid-2006 deadline. Praising a ULSD speed-up bill that passed the Assembly (see Diesel Fuel News 7/22/02, p9), Newsday urges support for an identical bill in state Senate (by Sen.

Kenneth LaValle, R-Port Jefferson). This bill not only would desulfurize diesel but also heating oil, triggering opposition from heating-oil dealers worried about lack of supply. On a related note, the Santa Fe New Mexican gives back-handed praise to EPA's newly proposed non-road diesel rule, but editorializes that "when the EPA announces that clean diesel will prevent nearly 10,000 premature deaths a year and save billions of dollars in health-care costs, we can't help wondering what took the government so long to act."