Protect the air you breathe

Make a Difference by Cleaning Up Dirty Diesel Locomotive and Marine Engines

"More than 150 million Americans still live in counties where they are exposed to unhealthful levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association State of the Air: 2006 report, released on April 27. Pollution from marine and locomotive sources are major contributors to the continuing air pollution problem in many areas. 

Diesel locomotives and marine engines (boats, inland freighters, ferries, tugs and pleasure craft) are among the largest and most dangerous under-regulated sources of air pollution.  They can legally pollute at levels higher than trucks, buses or heavy equipment (tractors, bulldozers) diesel engines.  A typical train, for example, will emit as much particle pollution over its life as 500 trucks."