EPA on Thursday proposed “targeted revisions” to increasingly stringent Biden-era limits on heavy-duty trucks’ emissions of a smog-forming pollutant.
The changes are meant to address industry concerns about up-front costs while keeping the Biden administration’s numerical limits in place and maintaining almost 90 percent of the pollution reductions, the agency said.
“These rules do not reduce the emission requirement,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said while announcing the rule at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall. “We’re making significant changes that heed the feedback that we got from the industry on commonsense changes that can be made to their regulation that can allow them to continue to innovate and provide high-quality products to customers at more affordable costs.”
The proposed amendments to pollution rules for heavy-duty trucks is the latest effort by the Trump administration to ease or repeal Biden-era rules on internal combustion engines, which separately involved ending all greenhouse gas regulations for vehicles.
