STATES EYE MODEL RULE GIVEN SCANT PARTICIPATION IN DIESEL ENGINE PLAN

State and local air regulators may develop a model rule requiring trucks to reprogram engines to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, after EPA and Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement officials announced they had no plan to address the scant number of truckers undergoing the reprogramming under a widely touted federal consent decree. Khesha Jennings of EPA's Office of Transportation & Air Quality told participants in a July 20 status meeting on the 1999 consent decree that only 7.2 percent of...