What roles do fleets play in protecting
air quality?
As a fleet
owner or manager, you have many opportunities to help improve air
quality. By the year 2007, mobile sources will contribute more than
60 percent of Tennessee’s nitrogen oxide (NOx)emissions,
one of the key pollutants that create ozone. Heavy-duty diesel engines
also create fine particle pollution (PM2.5).
Reducing the air pollutants emitted from your company’s vehicles
will help reduce harmful levels of ozone and fine particle pollution
in Tennessee.
What can I do to reduce air pollution?
Regardless of the types of vehicles
you drive or the size of your fleet, you can take action to reduce
your organization’s vehicle emissions.
· Adopt
policies to reduce unnecessary idling
· Take
action to
improve
fuel efficiency,
including reducing highway speeds
· Use
cleaner
fuels whenever possible
· Purchase
new vehicles with cleaner, more fuel-efficient engines or install
diesel
retrofit technologies to reduce air emissions
· Participate
in EPA’s SmartWay
Transport Partnership program
(for diesel fleets)
For more information:
School
bus fleets
All other fleets
Idling
strategies:
https://cleancities.energy.gov/
Fuel
efficiency information for cars and trucks:
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/drive.shtml
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles
https://www.epa.gov/smartway
Cleaner
fuels and vehicles:
https://cleancities.energy.gov/
The federal
Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct) aims to reduce our nation's dependence
on imported petroleum by requiring certain fleets to acquire alternative
fuel vehicles, which are capable of operating on nonpetroleum fuels.
Find out more about this program at https://epact.energy.gov/
Tennessee's
designated Clean Cities coalitions work to provide clean domestic
alternatives to gasoline and diesel in the transportation sector
and reduce national dependence on foreign petroleum while improving
regional air quality. Contact the Clean Cities program nearest you
to learn more about cleaner fuels in your area.
East
TN Clean Fuels Coalition
Retrofit technologies:
https://www.epa.gov/transportation-air-pollution-and-climate-change
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