Tell the EPA to Create Strong Limits on Pollution from Trucks and Buses

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

The black cloud of exhaust belching from a heavy-duty truck on the road is a sight familiar to all of us. You don’t need to be an expert in air pollution to know that’s not good for us.

Diesel exhaust from trucks is a serious threat to our health, linked to increased rates of cancer and respiratory disease.¹ Yet diesel trucks drive through our neighborhoods every day, polluting the air we breathe.

Cleaner air is possible if we replace dirty diesel trucks and buses with zero-emission electric vehicles. And the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering a clean trucks rule right now.

Raise your voice for clean air at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49995: Urge the EPA to create strong limits on pollution from trucks and buses.

The EPA’s current proposal doesn’t go far enough to reduce the smog pollution that threatens our health. Stronger limits on smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) will save lives.

In addition to dirtying our air, transportation is the biggest source of global warming pollution.² To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we must transition away from fossil fuel-powered trucks and buses.

Will you push the EPA to create a clean trucks rule that will safeguard our health and climate?

The health of our communities and the climate can’t wait. The proposed limits on global warming pollution will make little progress and don’t do enough to accelerate the market for electric trucks.

Cleaner trucks will deliver cleaner air.

Submit your comment before the EPA’s deadline on May 16.

1. “Diesel Engine Exhaust,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, last accessed April 27, 2022.
2. “Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks,” EPA, last accessed April 27, 2022.