OVDA members/supporters:
A wide coalition of business groups are pushing back on a rule planned to start January 1, 2025 which will, essentially, prohibit manufacturers from delivering many new medium and heavy duty trucks, and RVs, to dealerships in Oregon due to fleet-wide emissions standards.
Be sure to include your name / business name, and contact information. You are welcome to modify the email as you see fit. Add a paragraph about your business, about how many employees you support, about how you need dependable trucks to serve your customers. Also encourage your employees, your family, your friends to send similar emails. We are looking for numbers.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Environmental Quality Commission (EQC – appointed by the Governor) has an agenda item for Thursday’s meeting to adopt an inadequate and incomplete delay to the Advanced Clean Truck rule (ACT). Without a full implementation delay, the impact on the types of new medium and heavy duty trucks, and RVs, are available for sale in Oregon starting January 1, 2025 will be significant.
BACKGROUND
California adopted tailpipe standards in 1967 (when Governor Ronald Reagan created the California Air Resources Board – CARB). The Federal government adopted tailpipe standards in 1970. Since CA already had standards higher than the newly proposed Federal standards, the Federal rules allow CA to keep their higher standards and to continue to adopt their own standards. Other states are allowed to choose the Federal standards, or the more stringent CA standards. Oregon has adopted the CA standards. States cannot adopt their own standards. They either choose the Federal standard, or the CA standards created by CARB.
So, Oregon’s EQC can’t create its own standards, but it can delay in adopting the CA standards. That is what we are asking. Other states adopting the California standards are making similar efforts.
MORE INFORMATION
Rep. Shelly Boshart-Davis, a Republican state legislator from Albany (whose family owns a farm and trucking company) is leading the coalition to persuade the EQC to delay implementation. The “other side” – environmentalists – are engaged in a similar campaign to convince the EQC members to stay the course and maintain the standards.
Rep. Shelly Boshart-Davis will be on X Spaces tonight at 7:30pm:
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1MYGNMpgBlpKw
Other useful links
Another good article:
Original tweet:
Petition information:
More information:
Darrell W. Fuller
971-388-1786