This Act tells DEQ to wait to enforce some California rules on truck exhaust.

Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Oregon’s diesel ban went into effect January 1, but with President Trump’s executive order promising to rescind EV mandates, the future remains uncertain, causing chaos and confusion among Oregonians and Oregon businesses.

Here are a few of the biggest takeaways from testimony:

• DEQ confirmed that there is only ONE charger in Oregon that can charge semi-trucks.
• It would require Oregon to build 55 commercial grade chargers per week, starting 3 weeks ago until 2035, for the commercial truck industry to be able to comply with the ACT rules. That’s just for semi-trucks, not including pickups and other medium and heavy duty EVs.
• Manufacturers are already limiting the sale of new clean diesel engines. A 2010 engine is more than 90% cleaner than a pre-2010 engine. The ACT rule, in practice, is actually limiting the number of these new, cleaner trucks to be sold in Oregon.
• NOx emissions from diesel engines have declined 99.8% since the first NOx emission standards were introduced in the 1980’s.
• A heavy-duty battery electric truck costs about twice as much as a diesel truck but can only go about half the distance of that diesel truck. Those battery-powered trucks can only carry about 75% of the load. This will drive up the cost of everyday essentials we all need.
• 100 heavy-duty battery electric trucks consume about as much power as all the homes in the city of Eugene. If the entire Class 8 fleet (the heaviest heavy-duty trucks) in the United States converted to battery electric, we would need the same amount of power as Bonneville Power Administration’s 31 dams and 1 nuclear power plant to create enough power to charge them all.
  • We would need to build a Bonneville Power Administration every year for the next ten years to power a transition to electric trucks that the ACT regulations demand.

Whether you’re a truck driver, someone who depends on heavy-duty pickups to make a living, enjoys an RV lifestyle, appreciates the necessity of diesel vehicles like tow trucks and cement mixers, or an everyday Oregonian who doesn’t want to see their cost of living continue to increase because of unnecessary regulations, this bill affects everyone.

SUBMIT TESTIMONY HERE.