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PowerTrain to pay $2M penalty for selling nearly 80K engines that failed to meet Clean Air Act standards

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Justice Department (DOJ) announced that Mississippi-based PowerTrain, Inc. will pay a civil penalty of $2 million to resolve claims that the company imported and sold nearly 80,000 nonroad engines and equipment from China that did not meet standards under the Clean Air Act.

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PowerTrain to pay $2M penalty for selling nearly 80K engines that failed to meet Clean Air Act standards

Green Car Congress

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Justice Department (DOJ) announced that Mississippi-based PowerTrain, Inc. will pay a civil penalty of $2 million to resolve claims that the company imported and sold nearly 80,000 nonroad engines and equipment from China that did not meet standards under the Clean Air Act.

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UNEP Report Calls for More Sophisticated Approach to Developing Biofuels; Limitations of Current LCA Studies

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Here, RME show advantages for primary energy and GHG, but disadvantages in terms of acidification, eutrophication and ozone depletion. This is mainly as a result of carbon releases from the soils and land. Rapeseed biodiesel as an example of the varied environmental impacts of a particular biofuel. Source: “Assessing Biofuels”.

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