Wheeler Touts Truck NOx Plan To Highlight Business, Environment Pitch

MARSHALL, VA -- EPA is touting its just-released advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) to update air emission standards for heavy-duty trucks, acknowledging the agency will not finalize new standards until 2021 while still trumpeting progress toward a rare affirmative environmental initiative as business friendly in an election year. The planned rule would include more stringent standards for nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other pollutants that will be “more protective of the environment while at the same time simplifying certification and...