The lawsuits allege the Postal Service’s environmental analysis to justify spending up to $11.3 billion on gas-powered delivery trucks was deeply flawed.
Highlights
- 16 states sue U.S.
- Postal Service over its plan to replace its aging fleet with thousands of gas-powered delivery vehicles over the next decade.
- The lawsuits allege the agency’s environmental analysis to justify spending up to $11.3 billion on the gas trucks was deeply flawed.
- The Postal Service has about 230,000 vehicles, making up about one-third of the country’s entire federal fleet.
- The plan would blunt President Joe Biden’s pledge to replace the federal fleet of 600,000 cars and trucks to electric power and cut the government’s carbon emissions by 65% by 2030.
- A Postal Service spokesperson says the agency “fully complied with all of our obligations under NEPA”