| Conn. says diesel
retrofits, bus replacements would cost $20M Jan. 27 Connecticut would need to spend approximately $20 million to retrofit or replace transit and school buses as well as construction equipment to meet diesel emission reductions suggested in 2005 legislation, the state Department of Environmental Protection said. The legislation proposed an 85 percent reduction of diesel particulate matter from transit buses by the end of 2010. Another goal is to maximize the reduction of diesel particulate matter emissions and to prevent diesel emissions from entering the passenger cabin of school buses in the same period, the DEP said. For construction equipment, the target is to maximize the reduction of particulate matter emissions servicing state construction projects valued at more than $5 million, the DEP said. The department of transportation already has implemented the idea.
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