CARB proposed to remove all diesel truck fleets from California roads by 2045. Some say that is too soon, others not soon enough.
would prohibit the use of new diesel trucks in and around busy railways and ports by 2024, phase out all diesel trucks from those areas by 2035, and — where feasible — remove every diesel truck and bus fleet from California roads by 2045.
. It added that the pollution from diesel trucks causes significant health risks to those communities.reports more than 150 members of the public were on hand to voice their opinions about the proposal. Many representing theand construction industries said that there simply isn’t enough charging capability or grid capacity in the state to move fleets over to zero emission vehicles so quickly.
Meanwhile, environmentalists, including a representative from the Sierra Club, urged that the timeline should be moved up to rid the roads of diesel trucks sooner rather than later. Currently, fewer than 2,000 medium and heavy duty vehicles in California are zero emission, and the vast majority of them are buses, reportsAll of the people who commented on the CARB proposal are right. Diesel trucks do pollute and that pollution disproportionately affects low income neighborhoods.
On the other hand, virtually every item on the shelves at Walmart and Kroger, every item that Amazon sells and delivers to your door, and every item hauled away to dumps and landfills is transported by diesel-powered machines, either diesel trucks, diesel ships, or diesel trains. The modern world is a slave to diesel power. Changing that will necessarily involve severe disruptions of the economy. The transition to clean transportation will be hard, but it is absolutely necessary.
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