Colorado’s adoption of new rules to entice the adoption of electric trucks is a strong investment signal.
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Colorado greenlights California-style clean trucks mandate in air pollution fight
Dealers must add clean electric medium and heavy trucks for ‘27 model year, and switch to low-NOx scores in fossil fuel engines
Why a Colorado switch to cleaner heavy trucks faces big roadblocks
State air commission will vote to copy California’s clean trucks mandate, but the trucking industry says no one is ready.
Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission rejects citizen petition to get faster clean trucks rules
The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission rejected a citizen petition demanding faster adoption of a clean truck fleet, saying state air pollution staff and trucking businesses need more time to adapt rules already launched by California and other states. A coalition led by Colorado GreenLatinos, the City and County of Denver, NAACP Colorado and more […]
Environmental coalition demands Colorado speed up clean truck rules, citing long delays in air pollution cuts
A coalition of Colorado environmental groups has filed a petition with the Air Quality Control Commission demanding they finish rules for cleaner trucks by the end of this year, saying they are harming Colorado residents through a series of delays in cutting greenhouse gas emissions and ozone. The AQCC should order staff at the Air […]
Colorado delays key clean truck rules until 2023. Environmental justice groups are furious.
Colorado pollution regulators now say they won’t finish long-anticipated clean truck rules until 2023, prompting cries of betrayal by environmental groups that say acting now is vital to cutting greenhouse gas and ozone-causing emissions that harm impacted communities. Key groups included by law in energy transition rulemaking said they’d been assured the rules for cleaning […]