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Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel

Ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) is diesel fuel with 15 parts per million (ppm) or lower sulfur content. This ultra-low sulfur content enables use of advanced emission control technologies on light-duty and heavy-duty diesel vehicles. Most highway diesel fuel refined in or imported into the United States is required to be ULSD as of 2006.

Petroleum-based ULSD is not considered an alternative fuel under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct), but most ULSD fuels produced from non-petroleum and renewable sources are considered EPAct alternative fuels.

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