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For further information, contact:
Scott Sklar 202-347-2214 or
solarsklar@aol.com
703-522-3049 (home)
Washington, DC (July 1, 2005) - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced yesterday a proposed rule regarding emissions for new stationary diesel generators, primarily used in industry and by utilities. The regulations are proposed to be phased in over 10 years but would not cover the existing 600,000 generators now operating unless they undergo modification or reconstruction. EPA estimates by 2015, the new rules would result in annual reductions of 68,000 tons of pollutants (particulates, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons) proven to cause respiratory and other health problems.
Scott Sklar, whose firm assists industry in cleaner technology options, said "the EPA rule, if adopted, will not only protect American's health, but expand the market for US-made clean distributed technologies creating US jobs, reducing oil imports, and enhancing critical infrastructure susceptible to terrorism, more intense weather patterns, and unpredictable energy price swings".
Sklar also lauded a bipartisan amendment introduced by Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) and adopted by a 92-1 vote and is now attached to the Senate Energy bill.
Said Sklar, "this EPA requirement is long overdo, with the proliferation of old diesels causing air and water pollution and increasing petroleum imports".
The Stella Group, Ltd. is a strategic marketing and policy firm for the clean distributed energy industries including advanced batteries and interconnection technologies, concentrated solar, and solar thermal energy efficiency, fuel cells, heat engines, hydrogen, microhydropower, modular biomass, photovoltaics. and small wind as well as pollution prevention applications.
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