Reducing Diesel Exhaust Pollution from Ships in the Northeast United States

摘要

The NEDC now has a successful track record of demonstrating first-in-the-nation pilot projects and innovative policies and programs leading to cleaner diesel technologies and practices. With the combined experience of EPA, state air quality agencies,rnand private-sector participants, the NEDC is now pursuing new opportunities to demonstrate cleaner technologies in a variety of marine vessel applications, such as tugboats, femes, and excursion vessels: Notable among these is a demonstration project that will repower a vessel older than the Titanic. By openly taking on these engineering challenges, the NEDC is demonstrating not only the viability of cleaner engines and fuels on every-day workhorses like tugboats and ferries, but also that repowering works for older vessels from a bygone era. With newer, cleaner, more fuel-efficient engines, these projects are reducing air pollution and lowering fuel costs while extending the operating lifetime of these ships for years to come.