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The wording on new drayage trucks “makes me feel that you can read that between the lines, unless there is a zero-emissions natural gas truck I’m unaware of,” Weston LaBar, CEO of the Harbor Trucking Association, told Transport Topics.
CARB should be looking at more than just tailpipe emissions as the indicator of which approach is cleaner, and include the whole emissions life cycle from source to end use, he said.
“CARB wants to phase out all internal combustion engines regardless of fuel source,” LaBar added. “For many of our members, the fastest way, the most immediate way to sustainability is with RNG.”