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Understanding the Heavy-Duty Truck Rule
Aisha Balogun for the Moving Forward Network (MFN)
December 2023
The Heavy-Duty Truck Rule, first adopted as part of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Trucks Plan in 2022, attempts to curb health-harming pollution from new heavy-duty trucks. This fact sheet introduces how the rule came to be, what activity it regulates, and the gaps it leaves in fully protecting environmental justice (EJ) communities.
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