.Funding to be Slashed for Program that Cut Air Pollution

More than 50,000 high-polluting diesel engines have been cleaned up or removed from US roads in a federal program designed to reduce smog and greenhouse gases, according to a new US Environmental Protection Agency report to Congress. But while both industry and environmental officials call the program a success, it is now threatened with a 70 percent cut in funding under the Obama Administration’s new budget.

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