Green Trucking Offers a Bigger Climate Justice Bump Than Green Buildings

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Takeaways:

  • Recent studies have shown that green trucking benefits low-income residents more effectively because they tend to live and work closer to ports, industrial facilities, and highways.
  • Decarbonizing and electrifying trucks will help reach their GHG targets and maximize public health benefits for the population.
  • “The deployment of clean trucks disproportionally attains air quality health benefits in disadvantaged communities,” said Scott Samuelsen, a clean energy researcher.

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