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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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Rizzle420 · M
CEOs of S&P 1500 companies tend to donate more money to Republicans during election cycles than to Democrats, but the extent to which that trend holds true varies by industry and where a company is headquartered, a new study found.

The energy industry — oil, natural gas, and coal extraction and products — had the strongest pro-Republican tilt among CEO contributions, according to the study by professors at Harvard Law School and Tel-Aviv University.

The professors reviewed U.S. Federal Election Commission records of political contributions by more than 3,500 individuals who served as CEOs of S&P 1500 companies between 2000 and 2017. The study examined donations made by CEOs to authorized candidate committees; party committees; and leadership political action committees, or PACs, as if they were made to candidates of the affiliated party. For CEO donations to political committees that were not clearly linked to a political party or candidate of that party, the study attributed the donations to Republicans and Democrats in proportion to how the committee at issue allocated its total spending between support for each group.

According to the report, the CEOs donated approximately twice as much to Republicans as to Democrats — about $123 million versus $61 million — over the 18-year review period.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Rizzle420 What does that have to do with the EPA screwing the American public?
Rizzle420 · M
@sunsporter1649 I replied to the wrong comment...lol my mistake
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Rizzle420 Ok, no problem
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Rizzle420 [quote]According to the report, the CEOs donated approximately twice as much to Republicans as to Democrats [/quote]

Did the report include anything related to the topic of this post?
Rizzle420 · M
@Budwick it was a response to somebody making the ridiculous claim that Democrats are more in the pockets of corporate America than Republicans
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Rizzle420
#1 - I might take issue with your claim.

#2 - You can delete, edit, move comments to reduce misunderstanding.