Washington – The American Trucking Associations sent a letter urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reevulate heavy-duty NOx standards to avoid causing major operational challenges for the trucking industry.
“ATA appreciates the commonsense approach to environmental regulation that the EPA is taking under [Administrator Zeldin’s] leadership,” wrote ATA President & CEO Chris Spear. “EPA’s commitment to engage industry stakeholders and reevaluate existing regulations will help to ensure environmental protections are appropriately balanced with the need to sustain economic growth and industry competitiveness.”
“We remain concerned that the heavy-duty NOₓ rule imposes significant burdens at a time when the trucking industry continues to contend with a prolonged freight recession and inflationary pressures,” Spear continued. “ATA requests that EPA consider improvements that would reduce cost and complexity and ensure that any new technology that trucking is forced to adopt is reliable.” (....)