American Trucking Associations Calls on Congress to Oppose CARB
With the change in presidential administrations from Biden to Trump, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has found itself against growing opposition to the policies that it hopes to implement, namely, the Advanced Clean Trucks Rule and Omnibus NOx waivers. The American Trucking Associations (ATA) is the latest to take up arms against them, writing a strongly-worded letter to Congress warning them of the potential dangers of bureaucratic regulatory overreach.
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“As the primary mover of more than three quarters of the nation’s freight, the trucking industry requires uniform, national rules and standards to facilitate interstate commerce and deliver for American businesses and families safely and efficiently,” ATA President and CEO Chris Spear wrote in his letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, amongst others. “When the Biden Administration granted waivers to California under the Clean Air Act, establishing technically unachievable emission standards along unrealistic timelines, it created a cascade of consequences that are now reverberating across the country, setting the trucking industry up for failure, and threatening to upend the supply chain for consumers.”
Ultimately, regulating the trucking industry is a balancing act between environmental emissions and impacts on the supply chain, which is especially concerning given the fact it is California: with it being the most economically robust state in the union, with an estimated GDP of 50% higher than second place in Texas, CARB’s decisions can have a reverberating effect across not just the state’s economy, but the entire United States’.
Conclusion
A solution that is both easy and effective to implement would be something along the lines of what California is already doing: every decade or so, California increases the minimum engine model year that is allowed to be on its roads. Because newer engines tend to trend cleaner, this would allow improvements in pollution management technology to slowly but surely take hold. The last time California updated this ban was in 2023 with a ban before 2010; an increase of one year every two years would slowly but surely reduce the average gram per brake horsepower-hour that trucks emit in terms of NOx pollution.
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