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Report: Heavy trucks cleaning up faster than diesel passenger cars

- According to the American Trucking Association, there has been a 41 percent increase in registered large trucks and an 84 percent increase in miles traveled by large trucks from 1986 to 2006. That equals lots of diesel fuel consumed. Fortunately, a new report from Coordinating Research Council and the Health Effects Institute shows that pollution from heavy trucks and buses is actually improving at a faster rate than automobiles. Impressively, today's big rig engines produce 98 percent less carbon monoxide, 10 percent less nitrogen ... Read more →

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