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The Environmental Protection Agency’s Phase 3 emissions final rule has been met with widespread opposition by key players in the trucking industry.

The Biden administration on March 20 announced new emissions standards for automobiles and light- and medium-duty pickup trucks.

WASHINGTON — A new EPA rule that sets tougher standards for deadly soot pollution faced a barrage of legal challenges March 6, as 25 Republican-led states filed lawsuits seeking to block it.

The Biden administration is setting tougher standards for soot pollution, saying that reducing fine particle matter from industrial sources could prevent thousands of deaths a year.

WASHINGTON — The Senate has approved Joe Goffman to lead the EPA's air pollution office just as the agency is set to finalize rules over emissions from power plants and cars and trucks.

Texas regulators on Jan. 30 formally asked the state’s attorney general to challenge the Biden administration’s rule that seeks to lower emissions from the oil and gas sector.

DETROIT — More than 4,700 auto dealerships across the U.S. urged President Joe Biden in a letter Jan. 25 to halt the EPA's efforts to enforce stricter vehicle-pollution standards.

WASHINGTON — Two Biden administration-backed laws are enabling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand its Clean Air Act authorities to transform the trucking industry.

Two interstate companies operating heavy-duty truck fleets in California agreed to legal settlements with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The U.S. government’s own scientists on Sept. 21 questioned whether corn-based ethanol is better for the environment than traditional petroleum-based fuels.