by Nick Pope
The Daily Caller

California regulators and leading truck and engine manufacturers reached an agreement Thursday to phase out diesel-powered trucks in exchange for regulatory concessions, according to Bloomberg News.

The Engine Manufacturers Association (EMA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) agreed to the Clean Truck Partnership, which stipulates that the state will reduce a stringent nitrogen oxide emissions standard to the federal baseline and provide the truck and engine makers more time to come into compliance, according to Bloomberg News. In exchange for these special concessions, EMA pledged that its constituent entities will eventually satisfy CARB’s aggressive long-term emissions restrictions, even if the courts strike them down, according to Bloomberg News…

“That is just Big Trucking reaching an accommodation with Big Government,” Steve Milloy, senior legal fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, said of the deal to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Truck and engine makers support stringent emissions requirements because they force truckers to buy new trucks.”
“Meanwhile, trucking firms (big and independent) and ultimately consumers are being hurt,” Milloy continued. “There is no environmental or public health benefit from any of this. Just added costs.”