Grassroots community engagement has resulted in over 10,000 Californians demanding that the California Air Resources board act quickly to adopt an Advanced Clean Fleet standard that sets an aggressive and achievable target of 100% electric truck sales by 2035.

Frontline communities needed relief from diesel death zone pollution yesterday. Any delay in the adoption of the Advanced Clean Fleet standard or its ultimate target to achieve 100% zero-emission truck sales is a denial of justice for communities that are hit first and worst by the air quality impacts of deadly diesel truck pollution and the climate crisis: drought, extreme heat, wildfires and blackouts.

Labor, health, equity, science, environmental and business organizations, some of which helped to galvanize this public outcry, provided CARB with policy recommendations that would result in an aggressive and achievable ACF standard sales goal, including:

• Requiring 100% of truck purchases, for all categories of the rule, to be electric vehicles by 2035.

• Require the oldest, most polluting trucks be turned over to pollution-free, electric vehicles as soon as legally possible.

• Close loopholes in the definition of drayage trucks to ensure that 100% of all vehicles used for cargo container operations are zero-emissions by 2035.

• Not allow for the use of so-called “near-zero” or “natural gas” trucks to be counted under the rule