EPA to reconsider heavy-duty emissions rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency will reconsider the Model Year 2027 and later greenhouse gas standards. The agency will also reassess the Biden administration’s Clean Trucks Plan, including the 2022 heavy-duty nitrogen oxide (NOx) rule.
In the EPA statement on March 12, Zeldin cited the financial impact of these regulations, which he claimed impose over $700 billion in compliance costs and contribute to higher consumer prices on goods transported by trucks.
“As we reconsider nearly one trillion dollars of regulatory costs, we will abide by the rule of law to protect consumer choice and the environment,” he wrote.
The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) welcomed the EPA’s decision to revisit the greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles—the Phase 3 final rule and portions of its NOx regulations.
“TCA fully supports this reconsideration, recognizing the progress in advocating for practical and achievable emissions standards,” the association said in a statement. “As a founding member of the Clean Freight Coalition, TCA has worked diligently to ensure that federal emissions policies reflect real-world operational and economic considerations.”
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Because they see us as a cash cow, we should be able to afford it, it-they say. It is mostly BS. They should ban CARBS of California, in my opinion. Most of the excessive environmental regulations are just a marketing gimmick. Some rules about heavy truck emissions are just fine, but it has become Way Too Much. 75% of our repair and service costs are related to emissions systems, which are not necessary to begin with.
We have better regulations for the same reason that we have child labor laws or a human rights commission or speed regulations, (the last is never ending) It is because doing things better or smarter or right has to start some where.
We have regulations for the sake of regulations! Right now we have trucks that produce little to no emissions so why are regulators pushing for more? Could it be the Star Trek dream of fully electric trucks for these few unelected beaurecrats? I think when the private sector is allowed to innovate without government intervention what comes out in the end takes in all factors and is cost effective not we want electric trucks so make everything else too expensive and unattainable,doesn’t matter electric doesn’t work in most situations
Please take CARB out of existence. It starts from there. There is Excessive Environmental Regulations. Too much of it is Really too much. For example: Why they do Not Regulate The railways , the big diesel electric locomotives in the same way they over regulate our Equipment ??? Why We do not have Diesel-Electric Hybrid Class 8 Trucks ?? There is so many questions there. The Newer Class 8 Trucks Emission Systems are by Design deemed to Fail. We need a Complete Revolutionized Sweep of the Whole System. Make Trucking Great Again!!
Why should canada or United States have .ore strict emissions than Mexico or India?