Posted on 03/29/2024 8:57:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that officials said will help clean up some of the nation’s largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases.
The new rules, which take effect for model years 2027 through 2032, will avoid up to 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the next three decades and provide $13 billion in net benefits in the form of fewer hospital visits, lost work days and deaths, the EPA said. The new standards will especially benefit an estimated 72 million people in the United States who live near freight routes used by trucks and other heavy vehicles and bear a disproportionate burden of dangerous air pollution, the agency said.
“Heavy-duty vehicles are essential for moving goods and services throughout our country, keeping our economy moving. They’re also significant contributors to pollution from the transportation sector — emissions that are fueling climate change and creating poor air quality in too many American communities,’' EPA Administrator Michael Regan said.
“Reducing emissions from our heavy-duty vehicles means cleaner air and less pollution. It means safer and more vibrant communities. It means lower fuel and maintenance costs for truck owners and operators. And it means healthier Americans,’' Regan said.
“The post-2030 targets remain entirely unachievable,” said Chris Spear, the trucking group’s CEO. “Any regulation that fails to account for the operational realities of trucking will set the industry and America’s supply chain up for failure.”
Todd Spencer, president of the independent drivers association, which represents small trucking companies, said the Democratic administration “seems dead-set on regulating every local mom-and-pop business out of existence with its flurry of unworkable environmental mandates.”
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The Environmental Protection Agency has no clue about climate but they know tons about politics
Making every effort to deliberately choke us to death under the guise of a scam
At one time, the EPA employed more lawyers than DOJ, or so I was told.
Thanks Nixon, you rihno jerk.
The EPA could not care less about the environment.
Great comparison and the country is close to the condition of that condo right now
Or “Brewster’s Millions” trying to waste millions at a record clip.
But mass transit?
Reminds me of the Kipling poem "Road Song pf the Bandar Log".
Here we sit in a branchy row,
Thinking of beautiful things we know,
Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,
All complete, in a minute or two,
Something noble and grand and good,
Won by merely wishing we could.
Now we're going to -- never mind,
I hope everyone can adjust to the new Feudalism. Serfing USA!
“But mass transit?”
You know the answer to that question, don’t you. We all know.
TOTAL B S
Climate cultists are modern day primitives sacrifice virgins to appease the volcano god.
The goal to destroy America, rumbles along.
“The new rules, which take effect for model years 2027 through 2032,”
GOOD! Trump will have time to DELETE these.
Show us ONE smidgen of proof that their proposed standards will result in even a tenth of a degree difference in global temperatures. We’ll wait...
Where is the actual law passed by Congress? From what I understand, EPA cannot enforce executive orders.
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