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Sixteen states as well as several prominent climate activists sued the United States Postal Service this week over its plan to purchase 148,000 gas-guzzling delivery trucks over the next decade, alleging the agency failed to consider the environmental impact of its decision.<\/p>\n

The states accuse the USPS of only performing a \u201ccursory environmental review to justify the decision to replace 90 percent of its delivery fleet with fossil fuel-powered, internal combustion engine vehicles, despite other available, environmentally preferable alternatives,\u201d the lawsuit reads. \u201cIn doing so, the Postal Service failed to comply with even the most basic requirements of [National Environmental Policy Act].\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California by the state attorneys general of California, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington state, Washington, DC, and the city of New York.<\/p>\n

USPS, under the leadership of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, has been at odds with environmentalists over the need to electrify the agency\u2019s fleet. Following a years-long bidding process, the USPS unveiled its next-generation mail truck in February 2021,<\/a> to be made by Oshkosh Defense. They will replace the current mail trucks that have been in service for more than two decades, which were built by another defense contractor, Grumman.<\/p>\n

Originally, the postal service said it would purchase 165,000 next-generation mail trucks, only 10 percent of which would be battery-electric vehicles<\/a>. President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats urged the agency to increase the number of EVs, but USPS determined there was no legal reason to change its plans. But, earlier this year, the service said it would increase its initial order of EVs from 5,000 to 10,019<\/a>, determining it \u201cmakes good sense from an operational and financial perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

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