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.
, alleging that the agency hasn't adequately accounted for the environmental harm of the vehicles. They were joined by several other government agencies, and environmental and labor groups.
The Postal Service has about 230,000 vehicles, making up about one-third of the country's entire federal fleet. Its plan to buy gas trucks would blunt President Joe Biden's In February, the EPA and the White House Council on Environmental Quality urged the Postal Service tocompleted a final regulatory requirement
The lawsuit alleges the plan violated the National Environmental Policy Act and should be set aside. The suit argues that the Postal Service's gas vehicles would stop states from achieving their own climate change pledges.
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