Climate: Truck drivers urge Trump to stay EPA's heavy-duty rules

December 7, 2016
Calls for the incoming Trump administration to take action against EPA's recently finalized Phase 2 greenhouse gas rules for heavy-duty vehicles are growing, with a new request from a group representing thousands of “small business truckers” urging top officials to “stay” the rules due to their costs and impacts. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), a group that claims to represent 90 percent of the trucking industry, sent a Dec. 2 letter to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, the head of...


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