{"id":10476,"date":"2017-01-10T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2017\/01\/10\/epa-awards-emissions-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:59:14","slug":"epa-awards-emissions-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/americas-greenport\/epa-awards-emissions-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA awards emissions projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded under the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA), the funding will be used to help the Connecticut Maritime Foundation, the Massachusetts Port Authority, and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority reduce emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The Connecticut Maritime Foundation is set to repower two propulsion and four auxiliary engines on two marine ferries, while the Massachusetts Port Authority will use the money to replace 26 drayage trucks.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has been awarded $375,000 to replace five service vehicles with newer models.<\/p>\n<p>All three projects aim to reduce nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and carbon dioxide equivalent emissions as well as conserve fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The investment is set to cover approximately 25% of project costs for vehicle replacements and 40% for ferry engine repowers.<\/p>\n<p>These investments are part of a $28m grant funds awarded by EPA nationwide for clean diesel projects last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded three environmental projects in New England, USA approximately $2m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10478,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476\/revisions\/10478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10476"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}