The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US has revealed the latest round of grants to tackle diesel engine emissions.

Awarding ten grants together totalling $1 million, the US federal government is hoping that the money can be used to develop new technologies that will reduce emissions from diesel engines, including improvements to catalysts.

The EPA is looking for the projects to develop innovative approaches to tackling vehicle emissions, through using alternative power sources such as fuel cells, but it also hopes that the money can help to fund improvements in the way catalysts and other emissions-reducing technology works in diesel engines.

Beneficiaries of the grants will include state, local and county governments, as well as a technical college in North Carolina.

Much of the investment is designed to reduce emissions in poorer areas, where neighbourhoods currently fail to meet federal standards on air quality.

The US is investing heavily in the development of new technologies such as fuel cells to reduce emissions across the country.


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