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heavy-duty trucks
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Jeremy Rempel. CC-BY-ND 2.0 (Flickr)
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Jeremy Rempel. CC-BY-ND 2.0 (Flickr)
Jeremy Rempel. CC-BY-ND 2.0 (Flickr)
Over the past decade, global warming emissions and fuel consumption by commercial vehicles has continued to increase, while those of passenger vehicles is declining. We need strong standards for heavy-duty vehicles to put the entire transportation sector on a sustainable future course. (1990-2011 data from EPA; 2012-2040 data from EIA)