The chair of the U.S. House panel overseeing the Postal Service (USPS) asked the agency to turn over documents and answer questions on its plans to buy mostly gas-powered next-generation delivery vehicles as critics question the move over costs and the environmental impact.
. The panel on Wednesday approved a bill that would require USPS to conduct a new environmental review of the decision.
She cited testimony from USPS at last month's hearing that if the vehicle weight was set one pound lower it would face strict emissions rules. The bill approved by the committee Wednesday would toss out the USPS environmental impact statement and compel it to conduct a new one. Asked for comment on Maloney's letter, USPS referred to its statement Wednesday that the bill "potentially would have the effect of delaying our vehicle replacement program by a year or more, and substantially increasing the cost."
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