Boston, MA - Today, a coalition of 17 states, D.C., and Quebec – working through the Multi-State Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Task Force facilitated by the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) – released an action plan to curb pollution from trucks and buses. The action plan makes specific policy recommendations that these signatory states, jurisdictions, and utilities should adopt.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, after over a year of public pressure over the Postal Service’s decision to only make 10 percent of its new truck fleet electric, the agency announced it would commit to at least 40 percent of the fleet to be electric.
The bill aims to clean up the shipping industry, protect the health of port communities, address environmental injustice, and provide solutions to the climate crisis. If ocean shipping were a country, it would be the sixth largest producer of climate pollution globally.
Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration proposed a rule that will require state Departments of Transportation and Metropolitan Planning Organizations to establish performance measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from their transportation plans and programs.
Ahead of Toyota’s Annual General Meeting, organizations call for NHTSA and EPA to investigate Hino, a subsidiary of Toyota, for emissions cheating in the US after cheating was found in Japanese trucks
Washington, DC - Today, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy proposed nationwide guidelines for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that will be funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The guidelines aim to provide standardization for EV charging stations across the country, help EV drivers build confidence for traveling long distances, and ultimately accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles.
Washington, DC - Today, Ford and the United Auto Workers announced a $3.7 billion investment and the creation of more than 6,200 new union jobs to manufacture electric vehicles (EVs) in facilities across Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.
Today, the nation’s leading environmental organizations moved to intervene to defend the Biden administration’s rule, finalized in March, that reinstated California’s Clean Air Act waiver, allowing the state to set greenhouse gas standards more protective than federal standards and to adopt zero-emissions standards for light-duty cars.
FALLS CHURCH, VA - Today, at Meridian High School, the Biden-Harris administration will announce the Clean School Bus Program, which offers funding for school districts to move dirty diesel buses off their routes and transition to a cleaner school bus fleet. Currently, 95 percent of the nation’s school buses are diesel. Diesel exhaust is a known carcinogen and can lead to or worsen respiratory illnesses like asthma.
Today is the last day of EPA’s comment period for a proposed rule that would reduce pollution from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. The rule that would govern trucks and buses across the nation and impact millions of Americans. The rule would go into effect for model year 2027.