Transportation Groups Ask New Jersey to Delay Adoption of Advanced Clean Trucks Rule

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A gaggle of transportation trade representatives despatched New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy a letter July 28 requesting his administration postpone its proposed adoption of the California Air Assets Board’s Superior Clear Vehicles rule.

Authorised in June 2020, the ACT regulation is a part of CARB’s effort to speed up the transition to zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. In response to the rule, zero-emission car gross sales would wish to make up 75% of Courses 4-8 straight truck gross sales and 40% of tractor gross sales by 2035.

New Jersey Division of Environmental Safety Commissioner Shawn LaTourette was copied as a recipient of the letter.

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Signed by representatives of teams resembling American Trucking Associations, the New Jersey Motor Truck Affiliation and the New York Transport Affiliation, the letter says CARB plans to suggest important modifications to the prevailing ACT rule in late summer time or early fall of 2022. The letter states there’s “merely an excessive amount of at stake” to undertake the regulation earlier than realizing its closing kind.

“The truck and engine manufacturing trade strongly believes that zero-emission automobiles are the way forward for the heavy-duty business car market,” the letter states. “Nonetheless, we urge you to have the NJDEP postpone motion till CARB completes its amendments to the ACT rule, so its full impacts could be understood and New Jersey can keep away from the pointless re-adoption of a revised future ACT Rule.”

New Jersey is house to a number of initiatives designed to scale back emissions within the transportation sector. In February, Murphy introduced the funding of roughly $100 million in clear transportation tasks, together with an effort to deploy electrical vehicles. New Jersey has a objective of reaching 100% clear power by 2050.

Murphy additionally signed an government order establishing the Workplace of Local weather Motion and the Inexperienced Financial system. Stationed throughout the governor’s workplace, it can think about points related to local weather change and a clear power future whereas prioritizing fairness and environmental justice.

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