Michael P. Walsh (born August 17, 1943) is an American vehicle emissions

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Life

Walsh graduated from

Manhattan College Manhattan College is a private, Catholic, liberal arts university in the Bronx, New York City. Originally established in 1853 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Christian Brothers) as an academy for day students, it was la ...

with a B.S. (1966), and studied at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

(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.

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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 The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

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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