Michael P. Walsh (born August 17, 1943) is an American vehicle emissions
engineer
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Life
Walsh graduated from
Manhattan College
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with a B.S. (1966), and studied at
Princeton University
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(1969–70). He worked in government service, directing motor vehicle pollution control efforts in the City of New York Department of Air Resources (1970–74) and the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
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(1974–81).
Since 1981, Walsh has been an independent technical consultant on vehicle emission standards.
In 2005, he received a "genius grant" from the
MacArthur Fellows Program
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Works
''Air pollution from motor vehicles: standards and technologies for controlling emissions'' Asif Faiz, Christopher S. Weaver, Michael P. Walsh, World Bank Publications, 1996,
''Clean fuels for Asia: technical options for moving toward unleaded gasoline and low-sulfur diesel'' Michael Walsh, Jitendra J. Shah, World Bank Publications, 1997,
Urban Air Pollution in Developing Country Megacities ''Slideshare'', Michael P. Walsh
References
External links
Car Lines newsletter
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1943 births
21st-century American engineers
Manhattan College alumni
MacArthur Fellows
Living people