Wisconsin Environment: Advocates urge EPA to deliver clean trucks for Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is accepting public comments on its federal clean trucks rule until Monday May 16. Ahead of the deadline, Wisconsin Environment, Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action, and Masters Gallery Foods presented a webinar on Thursday, Clean Trucks for Wisconsin, that highlighted the benefits of cleaner trucks for the state. Heavy-duty vehicles, including trucks and buses, emit toxic air pollutants that cause and exacerbate heart and respiratory diseases from asthma to lung cancer. Those vehicles also emit greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate crisis...   ...more

Ken Notes: Interesting presentation well worth listening to. Again I will suggest that economics, revenues, and profit are the key - and we are close to formulas that make this work. Also talking with an industry is far more effective that talking about an industry.