EPA Heavy-Duty Rule Backers Stream To OMB To Counter Industry Claims

Environmental groups, states and trucking-industry suppliers are rushing to meet with the White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) to press their case for strict EPA nitrogen oxide (NOx) limits for heavy-duty trucks in a bid to counter what they say is an unusually relentless and unified industry campaign to weaken the limits. The reason there are “so many OMB meetings” is because “we saw what industry is putting out there,” says Dave Cooke of Union of Concerned Scientists...