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The Washington Trucking Associations (WTA) has urged leaders in Washington state again to delay the enforcement of California’s Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) rules. This development occurred after both Oregon and Vermont announced plans Thursday to delay the ACT enforcement. Currently, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Vermont have pushed back on implementing these.
Ecology proposed regulatory updates plus over $130 million in state funding will get more zero-emission semi-trucks operating in Washington.
Oregon will delay enforcing a rule that requires truck manufacturers to gradually increase electric truck sales in light of industry difficulties and Trump administration tariffs and threatened funding cuts. Environmental groups say the two-year delay will cost millions in health care costs.
California has agreed to formally repeal much of its controversial Advanced Clean Fleets electric-truck mandate as part of a legal settlement, while more states are pulling back on adopting the state’s Advanced Clean Trucks rules.
Tariffs, regulation rollbacks and funding freezes may slow down the industry’s growth. But cleaner-running trucks are still gaining ground — albeit in a slower gear.
Republican Gov. Phil Scott said his state doesn’t have “anywhere near enough charging infrastructure.”
The administration’s tariffs have squeezed an industry already under assault from the White House.
The end of the road for California Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Fleets Rule was plotted out May 5 nearly four months after the agency withdrew its Environmental Protection Agency waiver request Jan. 13.
A coalition led by California, Washington and Colorado is suing the Trump administration to maintain access to $5 billion in EV charger funding passed by Congress in 2021.
Washington accused the administration of illegally withholding billions of dollars of congressionally approved funding to build electric car infrastructure across the country.
“There is a lot of uncertainty around what the current administration will do, and how states and the industry will respond…”
Coalition of states led by Nebraska get California to remove mandate following year-long court battle.
Heavy-duty autonomous vehicles over 10,001 pounds can be tested with a DMV-approved permit under the state’s new framework.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed two resolutions Wednesday that would stop California from banning the sales of new diesel trucks and revoke its heavy-duty low-NOx Omnibus regulations.
Congress is one step away from repealing California’s clean truck rules, including Advanced Clean Trucks, but a few obstacles lie ahead.