| The U.S. government has expressed its concern | | | | laboratory is where EPA conducts emission testing |
| over the global warming issue confronting the | | | | on engines whether powered by diesel or gasoline. |
| global community. During the latest State of the | | | | This is also where the second batch of testing will |
| Union Address given by President George W. | | | | rake place. The second wave of testing that |
| Bush, he emphasized his vision for reduced | | | | nonroad diesel engines will undergo will be held in |
| emissions and reduced fuel dependency on other | | | | the spring. |
| countries. | | | | The positive result of the first batch of testing is |
| In response to this, different agencies in the | | | | also what the manufacturers of the nonroad |
| government have taken steps to make the vision | | | | diesel engines are hoping for in the next session |
| into reality. The auto industry has also responded | | | | of emission tests. These tests are indicative of |
| to the call for cleaner engines. Recently, diesel | | | | what engine manufacturers are doing in response |
| engines used for construction, agricultural, and | | | | to the threat of global warming and in response |
| industrial works undergone testing and has passed | | | | to the challenge issued by different sectors in the |
| them. This is good news not only for the makers | | | | country. |
| of these diesel engines but also for the entire | | | | The Environmental Protection Agency is a federal |
| country. | | | | agency charged with the responsibility of |
| The United States Environmental Protection | | | | protecting human health and the protection of the |
| Agency or the EPA has announced that they | | | | natural resources. In the effort to achieve their |
| have finished the preliminary emission testing for | | | | goal, the agency conducts these tests to ensure |
| construction, agricultural, and industrial diesel | | | | that the health of the general public is |
| powered engines. The EPA also confirmed that | | | | safeguarded against the harmful effects of |
| the emission figures cited by the engines' | | | | emissions from nonroad diesel engines. |
| manufacturers are all accurate. The recently | | | | The tests are done in implementing the Clean Air |
| concluded testing is just the first wave of | | | | Nonroad Diesel Rule completed in 2004. The rule is |
| evaluations that is aimed to ensure that non-road | | | | aimed to cut down the number of premature |
| diesel engines will meet the emission standards set | | | | deaths as a result of the harmful effects of diesel |
| by the government. | | | | engines to human health. The rule is estimated to |
| The EPA's Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Fuel emission | | | | reduce premature deaths by as much as 12,000 |
| standard will be implemented as early as next | | | | cases. In the effort of the EPA to enforce |
| year. The tests that these nonroad diesel engines | | | | stricter emission standards, they act as a |
| will undergo have been done by the agency in the | | | | Covercraft car cover which shields the |
| past decades already. | | | | environment from the harmful effects of |
| The diesel engines were tested at the National | | | | greenhouse gas emissions. |
| Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory. The | | | | |