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News Release: Oregon leads convoy of states toward cleaner trucks
Newly adopted rules will speed transition to electric & cleaner trucks, buses, and vans; inspire other states to follow. School buses, package delivery vans, waste haulers, and semi-trucks gliding along roadways and through neighborhoods -- fueled by renewable electricity-- with no clattering diesel engines or clouds of harmful exhaust. This future is more in focus than ever for Oregon, with adoption of new rules today.
CAHC: 30+ Oregon groups endorse Clean truck rules
Oregon organizations call on the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality to improve public health, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector by passing the Clean Truck Rules this year! Read the endorsement letter for more information.
analysis: Oregon benefits from Clean Truck Rules
Oregon can save $21.2 billion and avoid 84,000 respiratory illnesses by 2050 by transitioning to zero-emission electric trucks, according to a new report that estimates the impacts of the proposed Advanced Clean Truck and Heavy-Duty Omnibus (Low-NOx) Rules.
E2: Clean truck policy will drive investment, job growth and cost savings in Oregon
According to the new Oregon Clean Trucks Report, Oregon’s medium- and heavy-duty vehicles are responsible for around 42 percent of annual GHGs, 70 percent of NOx emissions, and 64 percent of PM2.5 from all on-road vehicles. By adopting the Clean Truck Rules the benefits positively affect public health, our climate, the economy and jobs. Check out this factsheet for report highlights!
CAHC: ej and labor webinar on deq’s proposed clean trucks rules
WATCH: the Oregon Clean Air, Healthy Communities coalition in partnership with Better World Group held two digital “Lunch and Learn” events— for environmental justice, public health, and organize labor; and business and municipalities — about Oregon’s proposed Advanced Clean Trucks and Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus rules. Hear from the experts!
NRDC: Clearing the Air on New Truck Regulations
The trucking industry has an outsized impact on toxic air pollution and carbon emissions. Luckily, states can now adopt two new regulations to address the issue: the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule, which ensures more zero-emission, electric trucks are sold each year, and the Heavy-Duty Omnibus (HDO) rule, which cuts toxic air pollution from new fossil fuel trucks.
INSIDE EVs: Study Suggests Commercial Electric Trucks Will Have Huge Benefits
Moving away from diesel-powered haulers will greatly reduce greenhouse gas and particulate emissions.
“…The study authors forecast future reductions in battery costs and other expected improvements would result in a 50% reduction in total cost of ownership per mile by 2030….”
ECO WATCH: Electric Semi Trucks Are Actually Cheaper Per Mile Than Diesel Trucks, Report Finds
Heavy duty electric trucks (a.k.a. semis) cost so much less to operate per mile than diesel-powered trucks at today's prices that they would pay for themselves in just three years, according to a new report by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UCLA, and UC-Berkeley.