Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and over 20% of the climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from vehicles. Diesel exhaust in particular is a well known carcinogen and has also been linked to adverse health conditions ranging from chronic heart disease to decreased lung-function in children. Given that a disproportionate amount of public health impacts from heavy-and medium-duty vehicle emissions are concentrated in lower income communities, mitigating, and eventually eliminating this significant source of pollution has been a priority in the state of California.
Passed last year, the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule is a first-of-its-kind emission standards regulation designed to ease the introduction of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs)…
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