Lawsuit Challenges U.S. Postal Service Plan to Buy 150,000 Gas-Guzzling Trucks The Center for Biological Diversity, CleanAirNow, Sierra Club,
. “The entire federal government is rushing to electrify, and the Postal Service can’t be driving in the opposite direction.”
Current postal trucks, which are around 30 years old, get 8.2 miles per gallon. The proposed gas-burning replacements get 14.7 mpg, and only 8.6 mpg with air conditioning. The lawsuit says the Postal Service sidestepped mandatory environmental reviews that needed to be completed before the agency made a purchasing decision. Instead, the Postal Service released a draft environmental impact statement for its plan six months after it had already signed the contract with Oshkosh, in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act.
“The purpose of environmental review is to inform the Postal Service’s decision, not rubberstamp a plan it had already made,” said Hochberg. “Postal delivery trucks visit almost every neighborhood in the United States daily. It’s backward and bewildering that the USPS would show such disregard for climate and public health with its decision.”
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