Trucking Association of New York reacts to Congressional vote to repeal waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule

May 1^st, 2025, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the EPA waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule. In response to this action, the Trucking Association of New York (TANY) President Kendra Hems released the following statement:

“New York’s Trucking Industry is grateful for the bipartisan support in Congress which passed H.J. Res. 87, which will repeal the federal waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) Rule. ACT has presented significant challenges for New York’s truck dealers and fleets alike, who are being governed, not by Albany, but by bureaucrats in California. New Yorkers did not vote for a one-size-fits-all EV mandate which fails to consider the structural limitations preventing our industry from meeting this requirement in the first place—including, a lack of charging infrastructure, limited grid capacity, high equipment costs, and operational and range limitations.

What New Yorkers did vote for is for strong leadership from our leaders in Albany, who now must delay ACT, and set their own course by developing a realistic and reasonable plan for New York.

The Trucking Association of New York (TANY) remains committed to ensuring that New York’s transition to cleaner transportation technologies is thoughtful, equitable, and economically viable. To do so, we must balance our shared goal of environmental progress with the realities of conducting business in a diverse state like New York. Electric adoption must be a part of a holistic solution alongside other clean, more readily accessible technologies, such as renewable clean diesel.”