California is on the verge of finalizing the world’s first electric truck fleet standard.

We must get it right!

California’s freight communities, neighborhoods near warehouses and families living next highways are breathing the most polluted air in the country. Excessive exposure to diesel exhaust pollution in communities of color is one of the clearest examples of environmental racism.

The draft Advanced Clean Fleet standard proposed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will save more lives with a target of making 100% of the trucks in regulated fleets all-electric by 2036.

However, impacted communities living in “diesel death zones” cannot be guaranteed they’ll breathe cleaner air because the standard only regulates fleets that have 50 or more trucks.

Expert advocates did the research and found that reducing the fleet size to 10 will cut 16% more smog-forming pollution and deadly diesel soot that lodges deep in the lungs. Reducing the regulated fleet size also closes labor loopholes, ensuring thousands of hard-working drivers are not inappropriately burdened with the corporate responsibility of transitioning to these life-saving, pollution-free trucks.

CARB must change the regulated fleet size to 10 or more trucks and save more lives!