EPA faces lawsuit from 19 states over California’s diesel huge rig ban
This week, a coalition of 19 states filed go well with towards the Environmental Safety Company (EPA) for permitting the state of California to move rules that may successfully ban diesel vehicles within the coming years.
On June 6, Iowa Lawyer Common Brenna Hen introduced a lawsuit towards the EPA, alleging that California’s transfer to require that the majority heavy obligation semi vehicles be zero-emission by 2035 is “unlawful.”
Hen says that California’s diesel truck ban “forces truckers to purchase electrical vehicles and regulates trucking out of existence by way of mandating net-zero emissions requirements.”
Hen additionally argues that California’s diesel truck ban is setting a nationwide normal that may hurt the trucking business, as eight different states have additionally now adopted California’s emission requirements, “and extra are contemplating it.”
The coalition asserts that California’s truck ban will improve prices, “devastate” the demand for fuels comparable to biodiesel, and end result within the lack of trucking jobs nationwide.
The go well with argues that California’s Superior Clear Vehicles regulation is in violation of the Clear Air Act and different federal legal guidelines.
“The EPA and California haven’t any proper or authorized justification to pressure truckers to observe their radical local weather agenda,” stated Lawyer Common Hen. “America would grind to a halt with out truckers who ship our meals, garments and different requirements. However reasonably than help our hard-working truckers, Biden continues to empty their wallets and pressure them to drive electrical vehicles for his radical local weather change agenda. Iowa isn’t going to take a backseat because the EPA and California attempt to regulate truckers out of enterprise. We’re pushing again.”
States becoming a member of Iowa within the lawsuit embrace Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia.
