NORTH CAROLINA CAN LEAD ON ELECTRIC TRUCKS.
Learn more about how Advanced Clean Trucks will attract investment and create sustainable job opportunities in the state.
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Create jobs
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Attract economic investment
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Improve public health
All communities deserve clean air and economic prosperity. But people who live next to highways and industrial areas with lots of heavy truck and bus traffic, like rail yards, ports, depots, and warehouses, are exposed to far too much tailpipe pollution, made even worse by trucks and buses that idle and make frequent stops.
We can protect the economic well-being of our state by lowering vehicle emissions and bring relief to communities that are overburdened with this dangerous truck and bus pollution by accelerating the move to electric medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses as quickly as possible. The Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule gives North Carolina the power to act now to provide state economic benefits, protect communities, address climate change, and promote environmental justice.
Clean Trucks
This is a historic opportunity to slash pollution with strong policy.
HOW?
For Jobs and The Economy
Clean Trucks support economic growth and create good jobs.
For the Climate
A transition to Clean Trucks solves a major climate problem.
For Equity & Health
Clean Trucks will help families living in “diesel death zones.”
Time for North Carolina to be in the Driver’s Seat.
When it comes to tackling transportation emissions, analysis shows that adopting clean transportation policies for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles can make a big difference toward reaching the state’s climate goals while also providing billions of dollars of net-benefits to our state’s economy and offering significant health benefits by 2050.
Implementing the Advanced Clean Trucks rule will cut North Carolina’s transportation pollution by nearly half by 2050, which is the equivalent of avoiding the use of roughly 16 billion gallons of diesel fuel or taking 35 million passenger vehicles off the road for a year.