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A ‘Moral Obligation’: California Looks To Ban Diesel-Powered Trucks To Rectify
« on: September 29, 2022, 01:14:09 pm »
A ‘Moral Obligation’: California Looks To Ban Diesel-Powered Trucks To Rectify ‘Decades Of Racist’ Practices
 

JACK MCEVOY
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT REPORTER
September 21, 2022
 
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering new regulations to ban the sale of all diesel semi-trucks by 2040 to fight climate change and rectify a legacy of racist practices, according to a CARB report released on Aug. 30.

The proposal would require medium and heavy-duty trucks entering ports and railyards to be fully electric by 2035, according to the report. CARB believes that such freight vehicles should be banned because the diesel emissions that come from such vehicles disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities due to racist zoning policies.

“Decades of racist and classist practices, including red-lining and siting decisions, have concentrated heavy-duty vehicle and freight activities in these communities, with concomitant disproportionate pollution burdens,” the regulators stated. “CARB has legal and moral obligations to lessen these burdens.”

https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/21/california-looks-to-ban-diesel-trucks-rectify-decades-racist-practices/
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Re: A ‘Moral Obligation’: California Looks To Ban Diesel-Powered Trucks To Rectify
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2022, 01:20:32 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on September 29, 2022, 01:14:09 pm
such vehicles disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities due to racist zoning policies.
 

This crackerjack board doesn't think requiring electric cars will affect low income and minority communities negatively? 10631
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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