Clean Transport Backers Claim EPA Truck Plan Understates ZEV Trends

April 19, 2022
Clean transportation advocates are raising early concerns that EPA’s proposed heavy truck standards underestimate electrification trends in California and elsewhere, saying this at minimum requires strengthening of proposed GHG limits to ensure such trends do not erode the real-world stringency of Obama-era GHG requirements. The issue also is prompting critics to more broadly suggest that EPA’s proposal -- focused mostly significantly tightening nitrogen oxides (NOx) standards -- misses an opportunity to encourage electrification of the truck fleet, an effort the...


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