An estimated 72 million Americans, often people of color or with low incomes, live near truck routes that expose them to pollution resulting in higher rates of respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses and premature death.

In what’s being called “breakthrough growth,” more zero-emission trucks were deployed in the U.S. last year than in the previous five years combined.

Legislators ended the session by passing bills related to IRPs for electric and gas utilities and a bill creating a zero-emission truck incentive program.

The EPA approved a waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulation, clearing the way for the state to launch the zero-emission program.

California regulators are awaiting approval from the EPA for a rule that would require an increasing percentage of trucks sold in the state to be zero emission.

California is leading a trend of growing zero-emission truck deployments across the U.S., a new report shows.

California has sweetened the pot for a popular incentive program intended to fuel the purchase of zero-emissions trucks.