The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $50 million for clean diesel projects. These efforts will replace, retrofit or repower more than 8,000 older school buses, trucks, locomotives, vessels, and other diesel-powered machines.

The Air Resources Board today is reminding owners of heavier diesel trucks that they need to act now in order to comply with California’s Truck and Bus regulation, which has its first diesel filter deadlines in January 2012.