USPS has a new plan to spend up to $11.3 billion to purchase a new fleet of almost entirely antiquated, gas-guzzling, climate-busting delivery trucks — locking USPS into decades of carbon pollution when they should be transitioning to the electric vehicles (EVs) that we desperately need to fight the climate crisis.
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USPS’s new plan could lock us into more carbon emissions for decades.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is moving forward with a wasteful, scientifically-flawed plan to purchase a new fleet of almost entirely antiquated, gas-guzzling, delivery trucks — that will be on the road for decades — instead of investing in the electric vehicles (EVs) that we desperately need to fight the climate crisis.
USPS Postmaster General, and Trump-era appointee, Louis DeJoy is behind this terrible scheme — and is hell-bent on forcing USPS to commit to 30+ more years of gas-guzzlers.
DeJoy’s awful plan comes despite overwhelming opposition from President Biden, the EPA, and thousands of NRDC supporters like you who have been pushing the USPS to go electric.