TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey lawmakers have introduced legislation that would delay the state’s implementation of Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) regulations for at least two years, pushing back the deadline to January 1.
Unfortunately, this is just a pause, not a cancelation of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s ambitious ban on gas-powered trucks.
The measure, sponsored by Assemblymen Clinton Calabrese (D-36), Robert J. Karabinchak (D-18), and William W. Spearman (D-5), would prevent the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from enforcing the regulations until that date. A wide coalition of legislators co-sponsored the bill…