U.S. Gov’t Orders Truck and Bus Pollution Cut by 25%

The White House has mandated new emissions standards for large trucks and buses, mandating 25 percent lower carbon emissions and fuel consumption for semitractor-trailer rigs, delivery trucks, school buses and similar vehicles between model years 2021 and 2027.

The regulations are intended to build on prior rules that required companies to reduce the pollution by trucks and buses that were made in the model years between 2014 and 2018 by approximately 270 million metric tons.

Federal officials say that this will decrease our carbon pollution by 1.1 billion metric tons and decrease domestic oil consumption by up to 84 billion gallons by 2027.

The White House said the proposal also calls for locking in standards for heavy-duty pickups and vans to become 2.5 percent more efficient annually between model years 2021 and 2027. The rules will be paired with regulations that call for U.S. automakers to achieve a 54.5 miles-per-gallon fleetwide average for cars and other light duty vehicles by 2025, although federal regulators have said that auto companies may miss the goal.

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