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Newsroom
We designed this Newsroom to provide you with information about the Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative and the air quality and public health benefits it will bring to residents in Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin). We invite you to explore this Web site to learn more about our Initiative - and to return often for project updates, upcoming events and other diesel-related news. We also welcome your comments and questions.
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Region 5 Diesel Press Releases:
- April 23, 2007: EPA to award $700,000 in Clean School Bus grants to Midwest school districts
- April 18, 2007: Administrator Johnson kicks off Green Schools Challenge by presenting $100,000 grant to Chicago's Mayor Daley
- April 10, 2007: EPA proposes Indiana County for ozone standard redesignation
- April 10, 2007: EPA proposes 2 Indiana counties for ozone standard redesignation
- April 10, 2007: EPA proposes 3 Ohio counties for ozone standard redesignation
- March 30, 2007: EPA awards $74,000 grant to Worthington, Ohio, City Schools for clean school bus project
- March 26, 2007: EPA Awards $150,000 Grant to Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission for Clean-Diesel Initiative
- March 20, 2007: EPA proposes to move forward on requests for ozone redesignations
- February 15, 2007: EPA awards $50,000 grant to Wisconsin Department of Commerce for Clean-Diesel project
- February 15, 2007: EPA awards $94,876 grant to American Lung Association for Chicago Clean School Bus project
- January 31, 2007: EPA awards $50,000 grant to University of Illinois to cut diesel emissions from Champaign-Urbana buses
- January 24, 2007: EPA kicks off Midwest Clean Diesel Leadership Group
- January 19, 2007: EPA awards $50,000 grant to Wisconsin to cut diesel emissions from waste haulers
- January 8, 2007: EPA proposes Ohio county for ozone standard redesignation
- January 4, 2007: Indiana county meets ozone standard
- December 27, 2006: Ohio county meets ozone standard
- December 27, 2006: 5 more Michigan counties meet ozone standard
- December 22, 2006: EPA awards $50,000 to Tuscola Intermediate School District for clean school bus project
- December 20, 2006: EPA awards $50,000 to Fort Wayne, Ind., Community Schools for Clean School Bus project
- December 20, 2006: EPA awards $95,000 grant to Next Energy Center for Clean School Bus project
- December 19, 2006: 3 Ohio counties meet ozone standard
- December 12, 2006: EPA awards $200,000 grant to Indiana to cut diesel emissions at Jeffersonville port
- Novembe 27, 2006: 11 Michigan counties meet ozone standard
- August 23, 2006: EPA and DOJ Reach Agreement with A. Finkl and Sons
- August 21, 2006: Media Advisory: EPA to Co-Sponsor Green-Diesel Technology Conference in Chicago
- April 19, 2006: EPA offers more than $1 million in grants for emission reductions from diesel-powered engines
- April 13, 2006: Media Advisory: EPA to co-sponsor clean-diesel technology conference in Naperville
- March 28, 2006: EPA gives $388,519 Clean School Bus grant to Okemos Public School District
- March 20, 2006: Media Advisory: EPA to co-sponsor Clean Diesel Conference in Detroit and present Clean School Bus grant to Okemos
- March 9, 2006: Students Use Socks to Demonstrate EPA's Clean School Bus USA Program
- February 2, 2006: EPA and Duluth Seaway Port Authority to sponsor clean-diesel workshop
- November 28, 2005: Media Advisory: EPA to co-sponsor Clean-Diesel workshop in Columbus, Ohio
Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative in the News:
- October 2006 - Chicago Parent: "Back to Fumes"
- March 2006 - Conservation Technology Information Center: "Clearing
the Air by Not Tilling the Soil"
Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative e-Update:
We encourage you to sign up to receive the Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative e-Update, an electronice compilation of news and information of clean diesel activities across the region and the country. You can find current and past e-Update issues here.
To sign up to receive the MCDI e-Update as we release it, contact Anthony Maietta (maietta.anthony@epa.gov).
Region 5 Significant Activities:
The Region 5 Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative staff is working with partners across the six states and making progress towards impacting the diesel engines in the Midwest! Find out more about meetings, training events, grant announcements, and reduction activites that have occurred recently. Click on the year of interest listed below:
National Diesel Newroom :
Find out about what is happening nationally that is impacting diesel emission reduction activities at the National Clean Diesel Campaign Web site.