The Biden administration is rolling out more stringent emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles like large trucks and buses and announcing more than $1.3 billion in funding to deploy more clean transportation and school buses.
The US Environmental Protection Agency is also announcing stricter standards regulating nitrogen oxide emissions from heavy-duty trucks, updating the standard for the first time since 2001. In addition, the EPA said it plans to tighten greenhouse gas emissions standards for medium and heavy-duty vehicles -- standards on which the agency is now accepting public comment.
But one state regulator said the interim NOx rule is missing the bigger picture -- a transition to zero-emissions trucks. "The real goal here is zero emissions vehicles, that's really California's more compelling priority on this," California Air Resources Board member Daniel Sperling told CNN."This is a transition issue really. NOx is a problem; it forms ozone, but we'll get more NOx reduction with zero-emissions vehicles.
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