EPA Awards Funds to Reduce Diesel Emissions at Texas Ports
The Environmental Protection Agency awarded more than $1 million to the Port of Corpus Christi Authority. The funds go toward improving air quality by reducing emissions from in-use diesel engines. The project will re-power a 120-ton switch engine locomotive and two industrial diesel engines with anti-idling, fuel efficiency and particulate filtering technology.
Also, the EPA granted the Port of Houston Authority with almost $1.5 million. The funds are to help reduce emissions from in-use diesel engines and replace fuel switching on 21 ocean-going vessels to a lower sulfur fuel.