Several environmental groups filed lawsuits Thursday against the United States Postal Service over its plan to replace its existing fleet with up to 165,000 gas-powered delivery trucks.
to replace existing fleet with up to 165,000 gas-powered delivery trucks. The USPS has been accused of failing to meet environmental review standards and missing an opportunity to buy battery electric vehicles.
"Once this purchase goes through, we'll be stuck with more than 100,000 new gas-guzzling vehicles on neighborhood streets, serving homes across our state and across the country, for the next 30 years," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in afiled Thursday, the environmental organizations Clean Air Now, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club accused the USPS of conducting the legally-required environmental review of its fleet after already having finalized...
."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." filed Thursday by the Natural Resources Defense Council and International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America echoed such claims, saying the USPS's fleet purchase plan was"deficient at every step.
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