Federal Agencies Pursue National Policy To Reduce Truck-Stop Idling

August 25, 2004
EPA is working with other government agencies to recommend new policies for reducing idling at truck stops in an effort to streamline what truckers now say is a confusing patchwork of regulations that differ from state to state. Idling reduction is pegged as a major environmental and energy issue, because idling trucks waste fuel and pump harmful emissions into the air. While the final result of these efforts is still unclear, agencies including EPA, the Department of Energy (DOE) and...


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