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EPA’s Proposed Truck Rule Delays Justice for Freight-Impacted Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

This truck proposal is just more of the same: when considering credits, Option 1 gives away 12 percent of the first step of regulations (2027-2030), causing even further delayed action in an industry that hasn’t seen new tailpipe NO X regulation in over 20 years. Image: Freightliner ).

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EPA Announces Its Final National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives

E2 Law Blog

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final, revised National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives (NECIs) for fiscal years 2024-2027, seven months after soliciting public comment on its proposals. See Public Comment on EPA’s National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives for Fiscal Years 2024–2027 , 88 Fed.

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Stronger Fuel Economy Standards Are Needed to Clean Up Combustion Vehicles

Union of Concerned Scientists

leader in cleaning up the light duty fleet quietly released its own proposal in August: the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed to improve fuel economy of passenger cars and trucks steadily from 2027 through 2032 and heavy-duty pickups and vans from 2030 to 2035.

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Cities & the Inflation Reduction Act

Law Columbia

Clean Air Act appropriating $2.25 An additional appropriation of $750 million is made for the same set of activities in ports located in nonattainment areas, as designated under Section 107 of the Clean Air Act. Clean Air Act. Section 60102 of the IRA adds a new Section 133 to the U.S.

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‘Schedule F’ Would Be Bad—Even for Trump

Legal Planet

I led the teams that developed two sets of CAFE standards for cars and light trucks, for Model Years 2024-2026 and Model Years 2027-2031. We issued the 2024-2026 rule to replace a rule the Trump Administration issued known as SAFE II.

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. I’m an appellate litigator with a focus on climate and Clean Air Act cases. Q: Hi, Sean. For about 15 years I’ve been practicing in a very small firm.

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Trump’s America First Energy Plan Puts Industry First, Environment Last

Vermont Law

Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule. To rectify the increased financial burden that the administration claimed the CPP had on low-income and middle-class Americans, the ACE rule returns discretion to meet Clean Air Act standards to the states, theoretically allowing each state to set its own standards.

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