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December 4, 2009

Diesel projects get $16M from EPA

By JOURNAL STAFF

SEATTLE — Lisa Jackson, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, was in Seattle yesterday to announce that $16 million from the federal stimulus will go to projects that reduce diesel emissions in Washington state.

The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency will get $740,000 for retrofitting engines on tugboats; the Port of Tacoma will get almost $1.5 million to install a shore-side electrical connection system and alternative maritime power at the Totem Ocean Trailer Express Terminal and to retrofit two vessels; and the state Department of Ecology will get $1.7 million for cargo handling equipment at port facilities.


 
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