'Postmaster DeJoy's contract for thousands of gas-guzzling vehicles cannot go forward.'
Event organizers called the plan to build the trucks"in a newly purchased warehouse in South Carolina... a blatant move by Oshkosh to evade a decades-old contract with UAW workers in Wisconsin who are ready and eager to build the delivery vehicles of the future."
Speakers at the rally—where over 150,000 petitions to the USPS Board of Governors were symbolically delivered—included Sen. Ed Markey , Rep. Gerry Connolly , Sierra Club president Ramón Cruz, and UAW vice president Cindy Estrada. "Outside USPS headquarters this morning to keep up the fight for a new fleet of delivery vehicles that's at least 75% electric,"
Connolly, who has proposed a bill to require that."Postmaster DeJoy's contract for thousands of gas-guzzling vehicles cannot go forward."focused on the environmental and cost benefits of the postal fleet switching to electric. House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney , who also spoke at Wednesday's rally, pointed in her opening remarks to the hearing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"This Congress must help the world avert a climate disaster by moving from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles now," she said.
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