The Cincinnati-based Indiana and Ohio Railway was awarded more than $3 million in state grants to cut diesel emissions from its locomotives. One award, worth more than $2.2 million, will be used to buy two N-ViroMotive GenSet Ultra Low Emissions locomotives, replacing two that date to 1970. The other grant, worth more than $800,000, will be used to install auxiliary power unit anti-idle equipment on 24 locomotives.
The awards are part of the Diesel Emissions Reduction Grant program, which combines private investment in equipment with public resources to update emissions technology and help keep Ohio's cities in compliance with the national air quality standards. The Ohio Department of Development works with the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Ohio Environmental
Protection Agency on the program, which was created through an earmark of nearly $20 million in the state budget legislation. "We're working proactively to prepare Ohio's economy for the transition to a carbon-constrained world," says Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, head of the Department of Development.
Writer: David Holthaus
Source: Eileen Turner, Ohio Dept. of Development
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