EPA State and Local Climate and Energy Program’s Post

Today the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced 📢 over $735M million in grant funding to 70 selected applicants to the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles program! This funding will:   ✅Reduce air pollution & improve health outcomes, especially in communities that are disproportionately affected by air pollution.    ✅Encourage widespread adoption of zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles.   ✅Expand the nation’s charging and hydrogen fuel cell refueling infrastructure.   ✅Reduce vehicle fueling and maintenance costs.   ✅Create new jobs & domestic manufacturing opportunities in the clean transportation sector.  Learn more at:  https://lnkd.in/gFTMkmWP

🚚 ⚡We just wrapped up the #ElectrifyingI95 tour! With $250M in EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants, the NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION will lead a four-state coalition from CT to MD to electrify Interstate 95 freight trucking! Some highlights: ✅ 450 truck charging stations by 2030 ✅ 18 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions cut by 2050 ✅ Cleaner air for communities along I-95 👍 This is a major leap forward to reduce emissions and invest in sustainable EV infrastructure. 🎥 Check out our #ElectrifyingI95 video tour to see how we are charging forward for a cleaner future along the I-95 corridor! STATE OF DELAWARE, DNREC, Maryland Department of the Environment, CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT), Maryland Department of Transportation

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the launch of the nearly $1B Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grant Program, an incentivizing path for replacing polluting heavy-duty vehicles with zero-emission vehicles. The program will advance eligible Class 6 and 7 no-emission vehicles and fund zero-emission vehicle fueling infrastructure. Currently, more than 3 million Class 6 and 7 vehicles are in use across the country. According to EPA’s figures, this includes everything from box trucks to school buses, refuse haulers, dump trucks, street sweepers, bucket trucks, utility trucks, and delivery trucks. https://buff.ly/3QGPf60 #transportation #environment #energy #infrastructure #carbonemissions #carbonreduction

Cleaning up heavy-duty vehicles is critical to combat the climate crisis and to advance environmental justice. Last week the EPA released final greenhouse gas standards for heavy-duty vehicles, continuing its efforts to reduce climate pollution from transportation. “EPA took a critical step to clean up pollution from trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles that have an outsized impact on our climate and do major harm to communities that have traditionally borne the brunt of pollution from highways and industrial sites. These new standards will help reduce climate pollution while improving health outcomes for hard-hit communities, but we also know more is needed to clean up the largest and most polluting trucks.” - Trip Pollard, SELC Senior Attorney and Leader of the Land and Community Program. https://lnkd.in/egzdGtXi

GOOD NEWS: today's final heavy-duty trucks rule from US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will deliver much needed pollution reductions where they're needed most—and is a major step toward electrifying all U.S. trucks. Read our statement from Evergreen VP of policy Craig Segall: "Electrifying America’s trucking fleet will cut emissions from one of the most carbon polluting parts of the most polluting sector of our economy and deliver meaningful public health benefits—particularly in communities that have long called for action to address the unfair dangers they face from dirty trucks. We know there’s more to do—including electrifying existing fleets, not just new vehicles, and completing the path to zero these standards begin—but this is a key piece of the puzzle and this is a good day." Read our full statement: https://lnkd.in/eNRzKmC6

"On its own, electrified transportation will not resolve the decades of environmental inequities and injustice; however, as the largest contributor to the problem, adoption is a critical step forward and one that is already having an immediate and direct impact on the communities most affected." READ MORE: https://ow.ly/NUI950QW0S4 #ElectrifiedTransportation #EnvironmentalEquity #SustainableCities #CleanEnergyFuture #AutomotiveInnovation #EquitableAccess #EnvironmentalJustice #GreenMobility #ZeroEmissions #ClimateActionNow

"On its own, electrified transportation will not resolve the decades of environmental inequities and injustice; however, as the largest contributor to the problem, adoption is a critical step forward and one that is already having an immediate and direct impact on the communities most affected." READ MORE: https://ow.ly/NUI950QW0S4 #ElectrifiedTransportation #EnvironmentalEquity #SustainableCities #CleanEnergyFuture #AutomotiveInnovation #EquitableAccess #EnvironmentalJustice #GreenMobility #ZeroEmissions #ClimateActionNow

"On its own, electrified transportation will not resolve the decades of environmental inequities and injustice; however, as the largest contributor to the problem, adoption is a critical step forward and one that is already having an immediate and direct impact on the communities most affected." READ MORE: https://ow.ly/NUI950QW0S4 #ElectrifiedTransportation #EnvironmentalEquity #SustainableCities #CleanEnergyFuture #AutomotiveInnovation #EquitableAccess #EnvironmentalJustice #GreenMobility #ZeroEmissions #ClimateActionNow

NESCAUM welcomes EPA’s approvals of California’s clean car and truck programs. States now have new tools available to them in the pursuit of cleaner air and a healthier planet. https://lnkd.in/euEqxGuY

"I believe that while the challenges we face are great and timing is of the essence, technical NGOs can play a decisive role today in meeting and overcoming them." In a new interview on our blog, former Director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality at the EPA Margo Oge, and her successor Chris Grundler, describe the critical importance of technical assistance to informing the development of ambitious #climate and #cleanair rules. Read how expert NGOs, like our Alliance lead for vehicles, The International Council on Clean Transportation, are providing the unbiased research and analysis essential to smart policymaking. https://lnkd.in/gnFxx-Dp