Dive summary:

• Despite longtime bipartisan support, it's unclear whethert Congress can or will want to keep up funding for Diesel Emission Reduction Act grants that go to help clean up emissions from older diesel equipment operating on job sites around the nation.
• The grants for Fiscal Year 2012 were announced last month, shortly after the year closed, and totaled $30 million.
• Associated General Contractors, which lobbies for the funds, reports that the stop-gap spending measure that Congress passed instead of an FY 2013 budget has $15 million to get dirty diesels out of production.

From the article:

In mid-October, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the recipients of the Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) grants for fiscal year (FY) 2012.  ...