Challenges to Long-Awaited Truck Rules Set for ‘Uphill Battle’

Environmental and health groups lauded the Biden administration’s push for stricter heavy truck emission limits unveiled Monday, citing the potential to save thousands of lives and billions of dollars in the next two decades.

Legal challenges are almost certain for finalized rules that tighten up nitrogen oxides emissions from the freight fleet, but critics looking to take future standards to court will likely face an “uphill battle,” according to Institute for Policy Integrity attorney Meredith Hankins.

“Certainly there are costs to the industry, we can’t paper over that, but you can see that the overall net benefits for society under ...