Website Gives Fleets Information on Environmental Rules

By Timothy Cama, Staff Reporter

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A recently launched website, the Transportation Environmental Resource Center, aims to provide a wide range of information on environmental regulations for trucking companies.

TERC is “a new online compliance resource that provides information on environmental regulations affecting all transportation sectors,” the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, which maintains the site, said in a statement last month. It aims to host information for the aviation, rail and maritime industries, but it only focuses on trucking now.

American Trucking Associations assisted NCMS in developing the content and choosing the topics TERC covers, said Glen Kedzie, environmental counsel for ATA.

“We continue to meet with them monthly to keep on developing the site and expanding the site,” Kedzie told Transport Topics.

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Calif. Group Files Suit Over Trucking Greenhouse-Gas Rules

A California group representing businesses has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the federal government’s greenhouse emissions regulations for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the suit Nov. 4 as a petition for review with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

PLF is challenging the joint rulemaking of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Transportation Authority that regulates greenhouse gas emissions from heavy duty vehicles and engines used for commercial or personal transportation.

It argues that EPA “must provide its Science Advisory Board with the opportunity to comment on these rules before they are finalized” and said EPA must comply with other federal regulations that “would subject the proposed regulations to rigorous scrutiny.”

The Obama administration unveiled the first-ever greenhouse-gas emissions for regulations for heavy trucks in August, which were widely praised by the trucking industry.

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