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TRUCK TROUBLE: Business and trucking industry groups want Gov. Kathy Hochul to delay a clean truck rule that requires dealers to sell increasing percentages of medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles. Think a large cargo van, a furniture box truck, city bus, tractor-trailer or dump truck. New York’s rules are based on California’s Advanced Clean Trucks II rule, which the Trump administration and Republicans and Congress are seeking to overturn. In New York, the trucking industry says the rules are too onerous and will harm consumers. Business groups sent a letter on Tuesday to Hochul urging her to back a two-year delay proposed by Sen. Jeremy Cooney and Assemblymember Donna Lupardo.

“As you’ve noted, we continue to face an affordability crisis,” wrote business groups including the Trucking Association of New York and Business Council of New York State. “New Yorkers are struggling to make ends meet. Now is not the time for New York State to claim the mantle of responsibility and add yet another burden to working- and middle-class families.”The letter focuses particularly on the requirement that 7 percent of 2025 model year trucks in Class 7 and 8 have zero emissions. The letter says 400 Class 8 internal combustion vehicles are registered each month in New York so 28 electric trucks would need to be sold monthly, but over the past two years only four have been sold each month. The letter blames the lack of public zero emission charging on highways as a major barrier.

Environmental advocates argue there are enough trucks in that class used for short-range that could be charged at non-public sites to make delaying the rules unnecessary. Earthjustice’s Liz Moran pointed to data from a CALSTART analysis of federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics data showing nearly 80 percent of Class 7-8 tractors travel less than 100 miles. “They are not dependent on public charging stations,” Moran said. “So New York can easily move ahead with these targets while moving forward with funding for additional charging infrastructure down the road.”

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