Recent Announcements related to Transportation, Air Pollution, and Climate Change
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October 2024
- October 29, 2024: EPA announces 55 selected applications for nearly $3 billion in Clean Ports Program grants funded through the Inflation Reduction Act.
- October 17, 2024: EPA announces $125M to upgrade older diesel engines to cleaner and zero-emission solutions.
September 2024
- September 26, 2024: EPA announces the 2024 Clean School Bus Rebate Program.
- September 25, 2024: EPA honors 47 truck carriers and freight shippers as industry leaders in supply chain, environmental, and energy efficiency with its annual SmartWay Excellence Awards.
August 2024
- August 16, 2024: EPA announces a proposed rule that makes revisions, updates, and corrections to its streamlined fuel quality regulations.
July 2024
- July 15, 2024: EPA issues a notice of public hearing and comment for California’s Advanced Clean Fleets Waiver and Authorization Request
June 2024
- June 6, 2024: EPA announces the nine winners of EPA's Electric Transportation Video Challenge.
- June 5, 2024: EPA updates technical guidance, how to use EPA's MOVES4 model to estimate greenhouse gas emissions and/or energy consumption from onroad and nonroad vehicles in a state or metropolitan area.
May 2024
- May 29, 2024: EPA’s Clean School Bus Rebate Program funds over 3,400 new clean school buses in approximately 530 districts across the nation.
- May 16, 2024: EPA issues a targeted, time-limited Public Interest General Applicability Waiver of Build America, Buy America Act provisions for certain zero emissions mobile port equipment purchased under the Clean Ports Program.
- May 7, 2024: EPA anticipates awarding approximately $9 million in DERA funding to Tribal governments and eligible territories to implement projects aimed at reducing diesel emissions from older diesel engines.
April 2024
- April 24, 2024: EPA anticipates awarding up to $932 million in competitive grant funding under the 2024 Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grants Program Notice of Funding Opportunity.
- April 1, 2024: EPA releases updated materials and guidance for the Renewable Fuel Standard Efficient Producer petition process (EP3) for producers that demonstrate superior process efficiency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These updates are intended for producers seeking to co-produce ethanol from corn starch and corn kernel fiber.
March 2024
- March 29, 2024: EPA announces a final rule, “Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles – Phase 3,” that sets stronger standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty vehicles beginning in model year 2027.
- March 20, 2024: EPA announces a final rule, Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles, that sets new, more protective standards to further reduce harmful air pollutant emissions from light-duty and medium-duty vehicles starting with model year 2027.
- March 15, 2024: EPA denies a petition from the American Petrochemical & Fuel Manufacturers for a partial waiver of the 2023 cellulosic biofuel standard under the Renewable Fuel Standard.
- March 1, 2024: EPA finalizes regulations that require parties that produce biogas, renewable natural gas, or renewable compressed natural gas and renewable liquified natural gas under the Renewable Fuel Standard program to measure those products using specified methods.
- March 1, 2024: EPA is hosting a public webinar to discuss the implementation of the Biogas Regulatory Reform Rule (BRRR) provisions promulgated as part of the RFS final rule for 2023–2025 (the “Set Rule”).
February 2024
- February 28, 2024: EPA’s Clean Ports Program funds zero-emission port equipment and infrastructure, while supporting efforts to address climate change and protect air quality in port communities across the country.
- February 22, 2023: EPA responds to requests from state governors to remove the 1-psi volatility waiver for gasoline-ethanol blends containing 10 percent ethanol in their states.
- February 22, 2023: EPA issues a notice of public hearing and comment for California’s In-Use Locomotive Authorization Requests for Authorization; Opportunity.
January 2024
- January 8, 2024: EPA announces nearly $1B in awards for clean school buses.