California Drops Its Pending Zero-Emission Truck Rules

In 2022 California's Air Resources Board issued regulations to ban new diesel truck sales by 2036, remembers the Los Angeles Times, and force the owners of diesel trucks to take them off the road by 2042. "The idea was to replace those trucks with electric and hydrogen-powered versions, which dramatically reduce emissions but are currently two to three times more expensive."
But it would've required a federal waiver to enforce those rules — which isn't going to happen:The Biden administrat