BUSINESS
By Ross Hetrick and Ross Hetrick,Sun Staff Writer | August 29, 1995
Wartsila Diesel Inc., a European diesel maker with its North and Central American headquarters in Annapolis, has signed two contracts to build a $12 million expansion of a power plant in the Dominican Republic and a $43 million expansion of an electricity plant in El Salvador.The diesel engines for the power plants will be built in Finland, but the projects will be overseen by Wartsila's Annapolis office, which has about 80 workers involved in management, sales, finance, engineering and design, said Wendy Yannes, a spokeswoman for Wartsila.
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | January 8, 2002
Five to 8 gallons of diesel fuel drained into Columbia's Lake Kittamaqundi on Friday after a spill at a nearby construction site, an official with the builder said yesterday. Construction workers and Columbia Association employees put out buoys to contain the spill, said Don Guglio, senior project manager with Clark Realty Builders of Bethesda. Ice on the lake also helped keep the fuel from spreading, Columbia Association President Maggie J. Brown said. The association owns the 27-acre lake.
BUSINESS
By BLOOMBERG NEWS | November 24, 1999
DETROIT -- Delphi Automotive Systems Corp., the world's largest auto parts maker, said yesterday that it will buy TRW Inc.'s diesel fuel-injector business for $871 million to grab a piece of Europe's fast-growing market for diesel engines.TRW acquired the unit this year in its $6.53 billion purchase of United Kingdom-based LucasVarity PLC, and the sale will help TRW pare debt. The unit had sales of $1.1 billion last year.The purchase furthers Delphi's goal of adding customers other than former parent General Motors Corp.
NEWS
May 18, 2000
THE NATION should breathe easier now that the federal government has finally decided to crack down on air pollution from diesel trucks and buses. The dirty smoke belching from those large vehicles has been evident for years, even as the government continued to tighten tailpipe emissions from automobiles. New rules announced by the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday would slash heavy-duty diesel pollutants by more than 90 percent over 10 years, reducing smog and soot that raise the toll of cancer and asthma.
NEWS
By Elizabeth Shogren and Elizabeth Shogren,LOS ANGELES TIMES | May 11, 2004
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration yesterday announced a regulation that within a decade would cut 90 percent of the harmful pollution from construction equipment, farm equipment and other off-road diesel engines and 99 percent of the sulfur from the fuel they use. "It's a big moment in terms of clean air history," Environmental Protection Agency administrator Mike Leavitt said. "That black puff of diesel smoke will be a thing of the past." The regulation is expected to prevent 12,000 premature deaths, 15,000 heart attacks and 6,000 asthma-related emergency room visits for children every year, according to the EPA. Even many of the administration's usual critics praised the regulation, which is expected to be signed today, as the best thing President Bush has done for the environment.
NEWS
By Douglas Birch and Douglas Birch,Staff Writer | July 30, 1993
Forty percent of the heavy diesel trucks tested so far in Maryland's new voluntary emissions-control program flunked, spewing smoke dirtier than an industry-recommended standard.But state Department of the Environment officials greeted the news cheerfully yesterday.That failure rate is very close to what they expected when the program for heavy-duty rigs began seven weeks ago, officials said at a press conference in West Friendship, held at a truck weigh station on Interstate 70.The 18-month, penalty-free "pilot program," they said, is supposed to encourage the owners of soot-belching vehicles to tune up their engines and clean up the air. The $160,000 effort is also intended to help the state decide in 1995 whether a mandatory testing program for heavy-duty trucks, defined as those weighing more than 8,500 pounds, is needed.