California lawsuit seeks to stop USPS plan to buy gas-powered trucks
2 years, 7 months ago

California lawsuit seeks to stop USPS plan to buy gas-powered trucks

LA Times  

Four environmental groups that want the U.S. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in California, asks a judge to order the Postal Service to conduct a more thorough environmental review before moving forward with the next-generation vehicle program. Postal Service to buy more electric delivery vehicles are suing to halt purchases of thousands of gas-powered trucks as the agency modernizes its mail delivery fleet. Two lawsuits, filed Thursday in New York and California, ask judges to order a more thorough environmental review before the Postal Service moves forward with the next-generation delivery vehicle program. The new gasoline-powered vehicles would get 14.7 mpg without air conditioning, compared with 8.4 mpg for the older vehicles, the Postal Service said.

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USPS’ long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers
3 months, 1 week ago

USPS’ long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers

Associated Press  

ATHENS, Ga. — The Postal Service’s new delivery vehicles aren’t going to win a beauty contest. Odd appearance aside, the first handful of Next Generation Delivery Vehicles that rolled onto postal routes in August in Athens, Georgia, are getting rave reviews from letter carriers accustomed to cantankerous older vehicles that lack modern safety features and are prone to breaking down …

Postal Service, once chided for slow adoption of EVs, announces plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Postal Service, once chided for slow adoption of EVs, announces plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions

Associated Press  

Postal Service announced sweeping plans Tuesday to reduce greenhouse emissions by diverting more parcels from air to ground transportation, boosting the number of electric vehicles, cutting waste sent to landfills and making delivery routes more efficient. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy described a mix of environmental initiatives and cost-cutting business practices that together would combine to reduce the Postal Service’s contribution …

Editorial: Cleaner air, arriving soon by U.S. mail
2 years ago

Editorial: Cleaner air, arriving soon by U.S. mail

LA Times  

A postal carrier delivers mail in Los Angeles County on Aug. 20, 2020. Postal Service plan would allocate billions of dollars for the purchase of 66,000 electric mail delivery vehicles over the next few years. Postal Service’s announcement this week that it will spend billions of dollars to buy tens of thousands of electric delivery vehicles over the next few …

US Postal Service to boost purchases of electric vehicles
2 years, 5 months ago

US Postal Service to boost purchases of electric vehicles

Associated Press  

Postal Service said it will substantially increase the number of electric-powered vehicles it’s buying to replace its fleet of aging delivery trucks, after the Biden administration and environmental groups said the agency’s initial plan had too few electric vehicles and fell short of the administration’s climate change goals. The Environmental Protection Agency said the initial plan by the Postal Service, …

16 states that want to electrify USPS fleet file lawsuits
2 years, 7 months ago

16 states that want to electrify USPS fleet file lawsuits

Associated Press  

California and 15 states that want the U.S. Three separate lawsuits, filed Thursday by the states and environmental groups in New York and California, ask judges to order a more thorough environmental review before the Postal Service moves forward with the next-generation delivery vehicle program. All three of them target the environmental review underpinning the Postal Service’s planned purchase of …

USPS gets final signoff to order new delivery vehicles
2 years, 10 months ago

USPS gets final signoff to order new delivery vehicles

Associated Press  

Postal Service said Wednesday it cleared the final regulatory hurdle to placing orders for next-generation mail vehicles — and getting some of them on delivery routes next year — despite pushback from the Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental groups have pushed back because only 10% of the vehicles would be electric-powered under the Postal Service contract with the manufacturer, Wisconsin-based Oshkosh …

EPA: New mail-delivery fleet needs more electric vehicles
2 years, 10 months ago

EPA: New mail-delivery fleet needs more electric vehicles

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Postal Service plan to replace its huge fleet of mail-delivery trucks has too few electric vehicles and falls short of President Joe Biden’s goals to address climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday. In a sharply worded letter, the EPA says the Postal Service plan to make 10% of its next-generation fleet electric “underestimates greenhouse …

Lawsuit could delay replacement for aging postal fleet
3 years, 4 months ago

Lawsuit could delay replacement for aging postal fleet

Associated Press  

PORTLAND, Maine — Postal workers thrilled at the prospect of making deliveries in modern, comfortable and environmentally friendly vehicles are soldiering on in their aging, spartan trucks. “The longer this drags on, the more lives are at risk,” said John Graham, a postal carrier who operates one of the old vehicles in Portland, Maine. They’re built on a General Motors …

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