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Stim money at work




A federal Environmental Protection Agency stimulus grant is on its way to South Carolina bringing $553,918 to add clean air technology to 500 diesel-powered school buses. Where the upgraded buses will be deployed depends on where the state Department of Health and Environmental Control needs them to help meet federal ozone standards, according to state Department of Education transportation official Donald Tudor.
EPA also announced grants of $1.1 million to Mecklenburg County, N.C., to replace and repower diesel engines in the metropolitan area and nearly $2 million to the State Ports Authority to repower and retrofit cargo handling and other diesel equipment at the Port of Charleston.
Altogether, the grants are expected to generate about 70 jobs.
Controlling diesel emissions, a factor in creating ground-level ozone, is important because if areas don't meet new Clean Air Act standards in 2010, business and industry would face a more stringent emissions permit process, roads couldn't be built without proof that they wouldn't add to smog, and more people would suffer with respiratory health issues, officials say.
The Charlotte area, and in South Carolina, Greenville, Pickens, York, Chester, Lancaster, Richland, Lexington, Aiken and Abbeville counties are expected to fail to meet EPA ground-level ozone standards in 2010, according to DHEC
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Re: Stim money at work superlinedog 7/7/2009 4:41:52 PM