'We may as well deliver the mail with hummers,' said one environmentalist.
"DeJoy's plans for the postal fleet will drag us back decades with a truck model that gets laughable fuel economy. We may as well deliver the mail with hummers," Adrian Martinez, a senior attorney at Earthjustice,in a statement."DeJoy's environmental review is rickety, founded on suspect calculations, and fails to meet the standards of the law. We're not done fighting this reckless decision.
According to EarthJustice, the"new combustion model gets worse mileage than the 1988 Grumman postal truck model when new, and is designed to weigh just one pound over the threshold that would have subjected it to more efficient light-duty vehicle standards." "Under the National Environmental Policy Act, federal entities must analyze the consequences of their actions before making them," the group noted."Here, the Postal Service did a deeply flawed analysis too late.