HEARINGS ON THE DIESEL EMISSIONS REDUCTION ACT OF 2005

The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) advocates for the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2005 (DERA), a proposed $1 billion federal grant and loan program to reduce diesel fine particle (PM2.5) emissions. CATF highlights that diesel exhaust causes 21,000 premature deaths annually and that existing engines will remain in service for decades, necessitating funding for retrofits, rebuilds, and repowerings to meet air quality standards and provide immediate climate benefits by reducing black carbon.

• Diesel fine particle (PM2.5) pollution is estimated to shorten the lives of 21,000 people annually, including 3,000 early deaths from lung cancer, and cause over 400,000 asthma attacks and 27,000 heart attacks each year.
• The health damages resulting from diesel fine particles are projected to reach $139 billion in 2010. Nationally, the cancer risk from diesel exhaust is 7.5 times higher than all other air toxics combined and exceeds the U.S. EPA's acceptable level by over 350 times.
• The Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2005 (DERA) proposes $200 million per year for five years ($1 billion total) to fund a partnership between federal and state governments for diesel emission reductions. The program would allocate 70% of funds to a national program administered by the EPA—with at least 50% of those funds for publicly-owned fleets—and 30% to state-administered programs.
• The U.S. EPA estimates that the $1 billion DERA program would leverage an additional $500 million, resulting in a cumulative reduction of approximately 70,000 tons of particulate matter and a net benefit of nearly $20 billion, representing a 13 to 1 benefit-cost ratio.

APA

Schneider, C. G. (2005). HEARINGS ON THE DIESEL EMISSIONS REDUCTION ACT OF 2005. Clean Air Task Force. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/21093317/20050612-DERA_CS_FINAL_testimony.pdf

Chicago

Schneider, Conrad G. HEARINGS ON THE DIESEL EMISSIONS REDUCTION ACT OF 2005. Clean Air Task Force, 2005. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/21093317/20050612-DERA_CS_FINAL_testimony.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{schneider2005hearings, author = {Schneider, Conrad G.}, title = {{HEARINGS ON THE DIESEL EMISSIONS REDUCTION ACT OF 2005}}, publisher = {Clean Air Task Force}, year = {2005}, month = jul, url = {https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/21093317/20050612-DERA_CS_FINAL_testimony.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }