Tell NJ Legislators: Vote NO on A4967!

We need all hands on deck to keep the pressure on our legislatures NOT to move forward with a bill to delay Advanced Clean Trucks (A4967)!

This bill would directly DELAY the implementation of the Advanced Clean Trucks Program (ACT) by 2 years!

The implementation of the Advanced Clean Trucks standards is set to begin on January 1, 2025. However, trucking industry players operating in bad faith are manufacturing a false crisis claiming they can not comply with the regulation as written in the hopes of pressuring state regulators to delay implementation or pull out of the program altogether.

Despite overwhelming public opposition to this legislation, including over 500 messages urging our legislators not to delay ACT, the trucking industry’s effort was successful last Thursday, December 12th, in the Assembly Transportation Committee when our legislators unanimously passed A4967 out of committee.

We need to show that New Jerseyans want the Advanced Clean Trucks Program NOW, and flood your Assembly representatives' inboxes with public opposition to this pointless delay.

To be clear, NJ is in fact ready to start implementation. Truck manufacturers and vehicle fleet owners have been reporting to the NJDEP for since 2022. Based on reporting to the Department, truck manufacturers have already met the 2025 ACT requirements for all medium-duty classes just from the sales from 2022 and 2023 alone. Sales from 2024 and 2025 would only put them in a surplus of credits. For heavy-duty, with just state grant programs truck manufacturers will be already complying with 60% of the 2025 requirement and with more coming from the reporting from 2024 and 2025.

We do not have two years to wait to take action on mitigating the climate and co-pollutants emitted from the trucking industry in New Jersey. Communities’ wellbeing and lives are on the line.

Join us in sending a message to the state Assembly telling them to continue to advance ACT, and not delay this life-saving program because of bad faith actors in the trucking industry! Tell them to VOTE NO on A4967.

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Do not delay the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) Program for New Jerseyans! ACT is a life-saving standard to be phased in over time and to address devastating truck pollution, a significant source of climate and health-harming emissions. Hundreds of NJ residents have taken action and sent a message directly urging you not to delay this Program. We ask you to put NJ residents and their health before industry’s preferred business models. New Jersey has more highway per square mile than any other state in the country. In 2023 alone, diesel pollution in the state of New Jersey is estimated to have caused nearly $3.8 billion in monetized health damages, including more than 300 lives lost. Nationwide, people of color and low-income communities have disproportionately high exposure to diesel exhaust. This is not just an environmental issue, but a public health and social justice issue. We do not have two years to wait to take action on mitigating the climate and co-pollutants emitted from the trucking industry in New Jersey. Communities’ wellbeing and lives are on the line. The false claim by the trucking industry that they cannot comply with ACT is disingenuous given that the standards first passed in June of 2020 in California, giving the industry four and a half years to start to manufacture cleaner trucks in a slow and phased in approach that the rule allows for and to use credits to comply in the early years of the standards when vehicles and engines may not yet be available. To be clear, NJ is ready for 2025 implementation. Truck manufacturers and vehicle fleet owners have been reporting to the NJDEP for since 2022. Based on reporting to the Department, truck manufacturers have already met the 2025 ACT requirements for all medium-duty classes just from the sales from 2022 and 2023 alone. Sales from 2024 and 2025 would only put them in a surplus of credits. For heavy-duty, with just state grant programs truck manufacturers will be already complying with 60% of the 2025 requirement and with more coming from the reporting from 2024 and 2025. Multiple states have successfully adopted these rules. The faster the market for clean trucks expands, the faster they get cheaper, and the faster the national fleet gets cleaner. We cannot afford to delay this critical Program, and we urge you to continue towards a January 1, 2025 implementation for the sake of New Jersey communities! VOTE NO on A4967.

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