The Truck Industry’s Decades-long War on Stronger Pollution Controls
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
The EPA is under extreme pressure from industry to propose an absurdly ineffective standard for trucks.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
The EPA is under extreme pressure from industry to propose an absurdly ineffective standard for trucks.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
First of all, we would have had a very different understanding of the air pollution problem. We thought that the key to reducing air pollution was to require better pollution control devices. Instead, we would have understood that the root problem was the burning of fossil fuels in the first place.
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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
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Legal Planet
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Vermont Law
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Vermont Law
JULY 26, 2020
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Union of Concerned Scientists
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Legal Planet
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Second, the agency needs information about the costs of facility-by-facility changes, such as shifts in how often facilities are used, their fuel consumption, and how pollution controls were actually operated.
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