WASHINGTON – CARB waivers put into place by the Biden Administration are one step closer to being rolled back.
“This is not the United States of California,” said Chris Spear, American Trucking Associations president, CEO. “California should never be given the keys to set national policy and regulate America’s supply chain.”
Spear made the statement following the announcement from President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin that the waivers granted to California for its Advanced Clean Trucks and Omnibus NOx rules will now be submitted to Congress for review.
“Thanks to the leadership of the Trump Administration, Congress now has one more avenue available to reclaim the keys from Sacramento and restore common sense to our nation’s environmental policies,” Spear said.
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I believe that DEF does more harm than good and has put a big financial strain on Owners and the Companies that have to use and install it and all of its extras . That’s not to mention the damage it’s does to the trucks and the road ways along with fuel islands if it’s spilled out during fueling or leaking because of its chemicals it’s also a unnecessary strain on the Motors.
Carb has already proved that new technology in diesel engines has exceeded the low emissions we need to protect the enviroment, even lower than Electric which we dont have the power grid for, California should not lead the way!
In the 1990’s they came out with a winner; Oxy gas! To make car exhaust more environMentally friendly they added more chemicals to the gasoline. My wife worked in the local county water lab. The water tests were showing toxic chemicals in people’s wells. As time went on it was getting worse; it was building up in everyone’s well. Yup, it took them years to figure out it was the chemicals they were putting in the Oxy gas! They stopped the Oxy gas project and it took a long time for it to stop showing up it people’s well tests. The public was never informed!
Everything ends up in the water! This DEF, DPF, EGR,… BS is just ripping us all off. Tuesday 2/11/25 I was on my way to pick up a load. A DPF sensor broke, it made the truck call for an emergency regen, problem with the regen stopped EGR, EGR puts up an engine protection code that prevents a regen… Got it back 2/21/25, $4,450 and two weeks without my truck! All caused buy the “aftertreatment” system! The fake climate change system! Not to mention a pissed off broker that’s booked load didn’t get picked up!
I looked up an EGR emulator to bypass it. The emulator had a warning with it. It said the emulator will stop the DEF from working but only in American trucks! European trucks don’t use DEF!! As said by Trump: we are the only country honoring the fake Paris Climate Accord! To our detriment; idiots!