First cars, now trucks: Biden takes aim at tailpipe pollution
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The Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules Friday requiring reductions in tailpipe emissions from new trucks, delivery vans and buses.

Yet EPA officials said the rule will not mandate the adoption of a particular zero-emission technology. Rather, it will require manufacturers to reduce emissions by choosing from several cleaner technologies, including electric trucks, hybrid trucks and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.

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  • @girsaysdoom
    1•2 months ago

    It looks like there was a manufacturer limit of 300 truck gliders per year until orange man removed the restriction. It looks like in 2018, the EPA reinstated that rule though. Source.

    I’m not sure if they actually have enforced it since then but 300 doesn’t seem unreasonable.