Industry Urges CARB To Ease Truck GHG Certification, Maintain Credits

Truck engine makers are urging California air board officials to ease their proposed Phase 2 greenhouse gas standards for heavy-duty vehicles by removing requirements to independently verify all certification information, and to maintain an existing credit system for advanced technologies to avoid unfairly limiting such credits. The industry requests come ahead of a Feb. 8 California Air Resources Board (CARB) meeting, at which the board will consider approving its proposed "GHG emission standards for medium- and heavy-duty engines and vehicles,...