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Clean Trucks, Clean Air, American Jobs:

Eliminating Pollution from All New Truck and Buses by 2040 — and Urban and Community Applications by 2035 — Will Save Thousands of Lives, Cut Climate Pollution, and Result in Shared Economic Benefits

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

March 2021

A rapid transition to zero-emitting medium and heavy-duty trucks and buses is critically important to reduce harmful pollution in communities across the country—especially lower income neighborhoods and communities of color that disproportionately bear the burden of this pollution. Eliminating tailpipe pollution from these vehicles is also essential to help meet our nation’s climate goals. Our nation must adopt air pollution standards that ensure that all new sales of medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses are zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) by 2040 at the latest. And we must take swifter action to protect communities more acutely impacted by trucking pollution by eliminating tailpipe pollution from new vehicles that operate in urban and community applications by 2035.

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