Sean Edgar, Environmental Policy and Media Advisor On July 1, as the California Legislature prepared for recess, a last-ditch effort to exempt privately-owned contractor fleets from the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulation failed. Assembly Bill 1436 (Avila Farias) failed to pass from the Senate Environmental Quality Committee on a 3-3 vote[1]. By virtue of […]
The Republican majority in Congress and the return of Trump has CARB and its allies continuing to backpedal while simultaneously deploying teams of lawyers to defend a ZEV mandate on the trucking industry. The week before Trump’s inauguration, truckers breathed a big sigh of relief to hear that CARB withdrew its federal application to implement […]
The trucking industry at large breathed a sigh of relief to hear that CARB withdrew its federal application to implement the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) Regulation on January 13, 2025. The outgoing Biden Administration answered the following day that they considered the matter closed, indicating a desire to leave little opportunity for the next administration […]
