EPA FY14-18 Plan Targets Heavy Duty Vehicle GHGs, Off-Road Emissions

摘要

EPA's draft strategic plan outlining policy priorities for fiscal years 2014-2018 says the agency's air office will prioritize new greenhouse gas (GHG) rules for heavy-duty vehicles, while evaluating possible new controls on both GHGs and conventional pollutants from off-road mobile sources such as engines used in construction. The new policy goals are outlined in a section of the plan titled "Addressing Climate Change and Improving Air Quality" that provides an overview of EPA's key objectives in the strategic plan, which also includes targets for its water, waste, enforcement and other programs. According to EPA's website, the plan is a blueprint for advancing the agency's priorities and also projects environmental and human and health targets to achieve those outcomes. EPA says that much of the GHG activity for mobile sources it has planned for FY14-18 lines up with President Obama's Climate Action Plan to reduce GHGs 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.