EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency said it would probably increase the amount of ethanol that gasoline retailers could blend into ordinary fuel to 15 percent if tests show the blend would not damage cars.

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After months of speculating, Curt Spalding, the longtime executive director of Save the Bay in Rhode Island, has just been named New England’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief.

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The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to make an important and far-reaching decision this year that will affect more than 500 million gasoline engines powering everything from large pickups to family cars to lawn mowers: whether to grant the ethanol industry’s request to raise the maximum amount of ethanol that can be added to gasoline.

Source: New York Times

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The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection is extending the deadline for the state’s marinas and boatyards to comply with the environmental regulations of the federal and state Water Pollution Control Act. The act deals with discharges associated with runoff from pressure-washing boat bottoms.

The deadline for compliance had been December, but the DEP extended the deadline to Sept. 30, 2009.

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The National Marine Manufacturers Association says that, because of the lead time for compliance, engine manufacturers and boatbuilders should have no problem meeting the new emissions standards for gasoline boat engines and fuel systems that were issued last Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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See link below for the August newsletter.

UPDATE (July 20, 2009):
The Boat Pressure Wash Water Control Technology Virtual Trade Show has been temporarily discontinued. Check back in Fall 2009 for more information.
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The Boat Pressure Wash Virtual Trade Show is now available!

See the link below for December's RIMTA newsletter.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a paint-stripping and surface-coating rule for companies using methylene chloride for paint-stripping or hazardous air pollutants for surface coating.

The proposed National Emission Standard Hazardous Air Pollutant rule could affect engine part manufacturers, vessel accessory manufacturers, boat trailer manufacturers, and any company that applies HAP surface coating to finish plastic or metal parts.

Please see the link below linking to a PDF of the July newsletter.