More Air Rules Coming, U.S. Aide Warns Truckers

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ALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Air-quality regulations after 2010 will become even stricter than those now scheduled, possibly extending to controls for such things as “nanoparticulates,” federal environmental regulators told a trucking conference here.

“There will be more stringent regulations in the future,” said Charles Gray, director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s advanced technology division in Ann Arbor, Mich.

“That’s moved right up with death and taxes as something that’s inevitable,” said Gray, who gave the Feb. 26 keynote address at the fourth annual Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicle conference.

Nanoparticulates are tiny pieces of particulate matter much smaller than the soot particles that current standards require be taken out of exhaust emissions.

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