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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that marine and locomotive engines must meet tougher pollution controls, hoping for dramatic cuts in the amount of smog-causing chemicals and soot coming from trains, cargo ships, tugboats and passenger ferries.
The EPA regulation would require that new diesel engines used on ships and locomotives produce 90 percent less soot and 80 percent less smog-causing nitrogen oxide beginning within six or seven years. All the ships and locomotives would be expected to meet the new standards by 2030 as older engines are replaced or overhauled with cleaner technology.
"As more and more goods flow through our ports and railways, EPA is cutting diesel emissions at their source," EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson told reporters in a teleconference from the bustling Port of Houston in Texas.
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