The National Religious Partnership for the Environment
encompasses major national Christian and Jewish religious
institutions coming together to work on environmental issues. Faith
communities across the country have advocated to significantly
reduce pollution and emissions from heavy duty trucks. Pollution
from trucks has tragic impacts on human health, in particular
communities of color. This is a result in part of discrimitary
practicies in highway and transportation depot citings. Zero
emmission truck policies in California will have a positive effect
on states throughout the country. For this reason, as we work to
steward God's creation, the NRPE urges you to finalize a strong
regulation that would move CA towards zero emission vehicles.
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