USPS Finalizes Plan to Replace Fleet with 90% Gasoline-Powered Vehicles
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From: Ella Nilsen
The?plan of replacing current fleet with 90% gas power trucks and the rest are electricity vehicles is supported by US Postal Service, and they were opposed by EPA and White and asked for further research on the impact of emissions.
The Postmaster Ge20neral Louis DeJoy reaffirmed that the Postal Service doesn’t get enough financial ability at the moment in increasing the number of electric vehicles.
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DeJoy stated during the Trump administration, “As we have reiterated throughout this process, our commitment to an electric fleet remains ambitious given the pressing vehicle and safety needs of our aging fleet as well as our fragile financial condition. The process needs to keep moving forward.”
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Earlier this month, the associate administrator of EPA Vicki arroyo indicated the “inconsistency” of USPS plan and clean-energy policies at other states, federal and international levels, and described it as a “crucial lost opportunity to more rapidly reduce the carbon footprint of one of the largest government fleets in the world.”
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The chair of White House Council of Environmental Quality Brenda Mallory wrote a separate letter urging the U.S. Postal Service to improve its environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act, adding that if the agency fails to do so, it could face pushback from Congress or the courts so.
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Even though the EPA and White House opposed to it, the USPS plan is unstoppable, since USPS is an independent agency and is responsible for its own funding. Mark Guilfoil, the vice president for supply management at USPS declared in a statement, that the agency "determined that EPA's request for a supplemental [environmental impact statement] and public hearing would not add value to the Postal Service's already year-long review," adding that both are not mandated by law.
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The USPS announced it would retain some flexibility to increase the number of electric vehicles in its fleet "as financial resources become available."
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The senior attorney at the environmental law group Earthjustice Adrian Martinez said that environmental groups will sue the USPS to change course.
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"DeJoy's environmental review is shaky, based on questionable calculations, and doesn't meet legal standards," Martinez said. "We are not done with this reckless decision."