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EPA Is Legislating Again!

EPA Finalizes Rules to Decimate US Trucking Industry and Send Consumer Goods Prices Soaring

On Tuesday, December 20, crazed EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan announced the final national clean air standards to cut smog- and soot-forming emissions from heavy-duty trucks.


The new standards will slash dangerous pollution from semi-trucks.

The EPA insists the new rules will protect public health, especially the health of vulnerable populations in underserved, overburdened communities.

This is pure leftist insanity and will force underserved, overburdened communities to pay more for their food and consumer goods.

These people are dangerous and insane.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule Tuesday that will impose stricter nitrogen dioxide emissions standards on new heavy-duty trucks, a move that will substantially hike operating costs for truckers, experts and industry representatives told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The EPA’srule, which is more than 80% stricter than the previous regulation, will require large trucks, delivery vans and buses manufactured after 2027 to cut nitrogen dioxide emissions by nearly 50% by 2045, according to an agencypress release. The agency’s rule is intended to push truckers to phase out diesel-powered vehicles and use electric vehicles (EV) instead; however, the compliance costs associated with such rules could suffocate an industry that is not ready to transition to EVs, experts told the DCNF.

“It’s an overreach that is indicative of this administration’s tendency to set aside balance to achieve the goals of activists that they are politically aligned with,” Mandy Gunasekara, a senior policy analyst for the Independent Women’s Forum and former EPA Chief of Staff during the Trump administration, told the DCNF. “It’s going to squeeze out the mid-sized and smaller trucking companies because they’re not going to be able to afford to purchase the new, extremely expensive equipment required to continue to do what they do.”
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badminton · 61-69, MVIP
I'm willing to pay more to protect the environment. The U.S. should invest massively in public transit and modern high-speed trains. We need to join the rest of the developed world. We are way behind in good public transit compared to Europe and Asia.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@badminton Tremendous virtue signaling.
But, you better be prepared to do without - not just pay more.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@Budwick I see protecting the environment and better public transit as entirely practical, not just some idealist thing.
Confined · 56-60, M
@badminton prices will skyrocket far above what they are now. A loaf of bread here is $5.00. Under new epa rules it will be $15.00.
Gas will be 12.00 a gallon or more.
Green energy is nice, but its a 100 year project not a 10 year change.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@Confined Where do you get those numbers? Is there a study you can post?

We don't have 100 years. We don't have 20 years. We have to act NOW.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@badminton [quote] I see protecting the environment and better public transit as entirely practical,[/quote]

Do you now? So, where are all those wind powered 18 wheelers gonna come from?
Solar powered airliners?
Nice dreams, but not reality.
Confined · 56-60, M
@badminton there is no climate emergency, that is all a hoax.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
Confined · 56-60, M
@badminton You have yet to actually prove a climate emergency. It is something that is made up by people with an ax to grind. Climate chante is a Billion dollar business. If there was no money to be made in grants and fraud no one would care.
Again there is no climate emergency. It does not exist. There is no time line. We are actually headed to an Ice Age. (we have had 4 ice ages in the past, none of which were caused by man. Climate natually warmed up and melted all the ice each time, and that will happen over and over and over and over for as long as the earth exists.)
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@Confined Here are statements by NASA, the EPA, Caltech and The Royal Society all affirming irrefutable evidence of human-caused climate change. I could site hundreds more affirmations by scientists from around the world.

ttps://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
https://www.epa.gov/climatechange-science/basics-climate-change
https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/sustainability/evidence-climate-change
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/basics-of-climate-change/

Here are statements by NASA, the EPA, Caltech and The Royal Society all affirming irrefutable evidence of human-caused climate change. I could site hundreds more affirmations by scientists from around the world.
Confined · 56-60, M
@badminton Who is funding them? Thats right the WOKE corrupt Government. Follow the money. Give me a Billion dollars I may jump on the crazy train also.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@Confined There is a crazy train alright.
Confined · 56-60, M
@badminton cant belive any one would fall for climate marxism. It just is not true. There is not a single credidible platform that supports this hoax. (Only people being paid by big govt support this hoax) There is no independent non govt study that supports climate change.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@Confined Actually, there are hundreds of studies from around the world, from institutions both public and private, providing irrefutable evidence of human caused climate change.
Confined · 56-60, M
@badminton i have yet to find one that has zero govt funding.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@badminton [quote]statements by NASA, the EPA, Caltech and The Royal Society all affirming irrefutable evidence[/quote]

Science has discovered a way to make gold from climate change narratives.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@Budwick Any scientist or researcher would make [b]much[/b] more money being a shill for the fossil fuel industry denying climate change.