Groups Urge EPA Not to Weaken Air Pollution Protections for Heavy-Duty Trucks, Buses

Groups urge EPA not to weaken air pollution protections for heavy-duty trucks, buses

Environmental and health groups are urging the Trump EPA not to weaken life-saving air pollution standards for heavy-duty vehicles like buses, garbage trucks, and long-haul semi-trucks.

EPA Wants to Let Dirty Diesel Trucks Off the Hook. GreenLatinos and Our Allies are Not Having It. - GreenLatinosclosechevron-downbars

Here's a fun fact nobody asked for: heavy-duty trucks make up about 6% of vehicles on U.S. roads but crank out nearly 60% of the soot and smog-forming pollution. Under newly proposed rules, the EPA now wants to make it easier for truck pollution to keep dirtying our air and lungs, and poisoning truck drivers and communities. In response, GreenLatinos co-led a comment letter with Hip Hop Caucus, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and dozens of all…