Rule will “avoid 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions” and help reduce medical costs from environment-related illnesses, according to EPA
in Ontario on Friday, March 29, 2024. The Environmental Protection Agency has set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles. Trucks sit idle for the weekend outside a Ontario warehouse on Friday, March 29, 2024. The Environmental Protection Agency has set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles.
Dozens of semi trucks sit a Rialto truck stop on Friday, March 29, 2024. The Environmental Protection Agency has set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles. New Environmental Protection Agency rules and deadlines for heavy-duty trucks and buses were announced Friday, March 29, and quickly drew mixed reviews in Southern Californian, where trucks stream around the clock from bustling ports to burgeoning waves of inland warehouses.
“It requires truck makers to convert an increasing percentage of total vehicle sales each year to zero emission vehicles,” he said. Residents in the communities surrounding the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — including San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City, and Long Beach — have long complained about rising air quality and health issues related to emissions from trucks, ships and trains moving cargo to and from that gateway.
She added that with climate change now underway “it’s crucial that truck manufacturers get into the fast lane with zero-emission trucks to deliver the climate, health, and economic benefits we deserve.”The ultimate success of the rule, Schaeffer of the Engine Technology Forum said, will be contingent on a number of factors, many of which are outside the control of vehicle manufacturers.
Dropped on Good Friday, which for many is part of the long Easter holiday weekend, the announcement had many scrambling to assess what it all means. The environmental push, however, is nothing new to California, where efforts and deadlines to cut emissions have been ongoing for years.
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