California, Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts could be the lynchpin to transforming the entire U.S. trucking industry into a cleaner and more climate-friendly sector of the economy.

The new clean truck rules in these six states will require truck manufacturers to increase the percentage of zero emission medium-and heavy-duty trucks every year beginning in 2025.

The rules will require manufacturers to develop cleaner vehicles, in a way that could “significantly reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions as well as conventional air pollutants like nitrogen oxides,” said Paul Miller, executive director of Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, a nonprofit that supports air quality regulators. “Vehicle makers don’t make money on public goods like clean air, so it’s not part of their product development plans unless something is in place to require its inclusion.”

You can read the entire article here on Bloomberg: How Six States Could Transform the U.S. Trucking Industry