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While California waits for the EPA to act, more than 1,200 trucks have obtained new registrations to move cargo at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach this year; 90% run on diesel.
They are 6 percent of California vehicles with 25 percent of the vehicle-related emissions. This move fits with other state clampdowns on internal combustion. California Will Not Allow Heavy-Duty ...
The Truck and Bus Rule is considered by the Air Resources Board and other organizations such as the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Environmental Defense Fund as a win-win for the State of California: reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, reducing fuel use, providing fuel and operating cost-savings for truck owners, and reducing smog-forming pollution, in addition to providing human ...
But a federal court last year upheld California's ability to set nation-leading vehicle emissions regulations. The EPA granted California the authority last month to enforce a rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035. The EPA did not immediately respond to a request for comment on California withdrawing its waiver ...
The California Air Resources Board proposal would require all new medium- and heavy-duty trucks sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2040. California seeks to ban sales of diesel big rigs in a ...
During his first administration, Trump attempted to thwart various California climate efforts, including rules to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions from transportation sources. One of the rules California pulled after the EPA failed to approve it would have phased out the sale of new diesel-powered semi-trucks and buses by 2036. The Air ...
State regulators are facing backlash for a proposed regulation to phase out the sale of new diesel trucks by 2040. A future without diesel big rigs? California air board writing new clean-truck rules
[3]: §2020(a) The Fleet Rule effectively shifted most agencies off diesel fuel. A similar regulation (13 CCR §2022) [4] was issued in 2005 to cover trucks owned by public agencies and utilities, [5] and expanded via 13 CCR 2025/2027 [6] as the 2008 California Statewide Truck and Bus Rule to all diesel-fueled trucks and buses in California. [7]