EPA, NHTSA Announce Tighter Emissions, Fuel Efficiency Standards for Trucks, Buses and Trailers
The Environmental Protection Agency (here) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (here) will soon issue a final rule setting stricter emissions and fuel efficiency standards for medium-duty and heavy-duty engines and vehicles, they said. The new vehicle and engine performance…
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standards will cover model years 2021-2027, applying to semi-trucks, large pickup trucks and vans, and all types and sizes of buses and work trucks. The two agencies are also applying emissions and fuel efficiency standards to trailers for the first time, excluding mobile homes, with EPA standards taking effect beginning with model year 2018 and NHTSA standards taking effect for model year 2021. A copy of the final rule, which has yet to be published in the Federal Register, is available (here). EPA posted a fact sheet on the final rule (here).