The U.S. Postal Service says it has cleared the final regulatory hurdle to placing orders for next-generation mail vehicles.
“After signing the contract to procure these vehicles one year ago, the Postal Service conducted a fundamentally flawed environmental analysis that underestimates the costs of gasoline-fueled vehicles and overestimates the costs associated with electric vehicles,” Vicki Arroyo, EPA's associate administrator for policy, said Wednesday in a statement.
But DeJoy, an ally of former President Donald Trump, said more of the electric vehicles can be purchased under the contract if additional funding"from either internal or congressional sources becomes available.”
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