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You’ve Got Mail — and Clean Air
MoreOn December, 20, 2022, the White House and U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced plans to shift to predominantly electric mail truck purchases between 2023 and 2026, and committed to make mail truck purchases electric after 2026. The USPS fleet is roughly a third of the entire federal civilian fleet, and a shift to an electric future will deliver clean air benefits in every neighborhood in the country.
In 2021, the Postal Service made plans to purchase up to 165,000 vehicles, replacing a large swath of its fleet of over 200,000 trucks with a new model that gets a harrowing mileage of 8.6 mpg with the air conditioning on. Per those plans, 90% of the new trucks would be combustion vehicles with a worse fuel economy than a gas-powered Ford F-150 and worse mileage than the 1988 Grumman postal truck model when new. Under those plans, the United States would fall further behind as countries like France, Germany, and Japan have begun to adopt electric mail trucks, and it would have been missed climate opportunity, leaving the bulk of nearly 13 million metric tons of annual greenhouse gas reductions and billions in fuel savings on the table.
The Postal Service began to shift its stance on zero emissions mail trucks after a lawsuit filed in April 2022 by environmental justice group CleanAirNow and Sierra Club represented by Earthjustice, in addition to the Center for Biological Diversity, and a series of lawsuits from the United Auto Workers (UAW), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and over a dozen state attorney generals.
The American public weighed in on USPS’s dated, polluting plans with thousands of messages: Earthjustice supporters alone sent in 161,976 public comments to USPS.
Learn more: Message Delivered: USPS Charts a Course for an Electric Mail Truck Fleet
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Photo credits: View from Deer Mountain Trail. Tongass National Forest, Alaska. (Mark Meyer / U.S. Forest Service)
Cliffs visible at Yavapai Point in the Grand Canyon glow in the fading light of day. (K. Thomas / National Park Services)
A grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. (A. Falgoust / National Park Services)