{"id":6036,"date":"2026-06-04T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weact.org\/?post_type=update&#038;p=6036"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:34:36","slug":"we-act-testimony-on-the-epa-light-duty-vehicle-rule-delay-2026","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/we-act-testimony-on-the-epa-light-duty-vehicle-rule-delay-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"WE ACT Testimony on the EPA Light Duty Vehicle Rule Delay 2026"},"template":"","class_list":["post-6036","update","type-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","update_type-press-release","focus_tax-clean-air","person_tax-yosef-robele"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"featured_image":6037,"update_type":[366],"focus_area":[5],"authors":[195],"abstract":""},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_hero_links","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_hero_links":{"title":"","abstract":"","links":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>June 4, 2025\r\n<\/strong>Contact: Ashley Sullivan, 1(917) 837-1183, Ashley.Sullivan@weact.org\r\n\r\n<strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hello, thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is Yosef Robele, Federal Policy Manager with WE ACT for Environmental Justice overseeing Energy and Transportation Issues.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are an environmental justice non profit organization based out of Harlem that has fought for and continues to fight for environmental justice In New York City and State as well as at the federal level. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally we convene the <a href=\"https:\/\/daretobreathe.org\">Clean Air for the Long Haul<\/a>, a national <a href=\"https:\/\/ejforum.org\">cohort of environmental justice organizations<\/a> working together to embed environmental justice in EPA rulemakings in the power and transportation sectors.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am speaking here today along with other member organizations in our cohort to raise our collective concerns regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/weact.org\/updates\/clean-air-for-the-long-haul-condemns-trump-administrations-continued-efforts-to-gut-tailpipe-pollution-protections\/\">the delay of Light Duty Vehicle Criteria Pollutant standards<\/a>. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, this rule is the latest in a series of deregulatory actions by the EPA to eliminate important environmental safeguards in order to promote and further entrench a fossil fuel based economy, despite the known harms of this approach. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, this is personally my second time in just a week in which I\u2019ve been compelled to testify against these deregulatory actions. <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The criteria pollutants regulated under this rule such as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and particulate matter (PM2.5) are of particular concern to our communities who are disproportionately exposed to them. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As this disproportionate exposure results in higher rates and more severe forms medical conditions such as asthma, cardio vascular conditions and various cancers. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example in New York City residents suffer from, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov\/IndicatorPublic\/data-stories\/traffic-and-air-pollution\/#:~:text=14%25%20of%20the%20PM2.,deliveries%2C%20traffic%20patterns%20are%20changing.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2,000 deaths and over 5000 emergency visits and hospitalizations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for respiratory and heart disease each year as a result of particulate matter\u00a0 alone<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our transportation system by way of how highways, distribution hubs and ports have been placed in our communities concentrates these dangerous pollutants in our homes, workplaces, and places of worship. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/weact.org\/updates\/clean-air-for-the-long-haul-cohort-on-updated-epa-light-medium-vehicle-rule\/\">\u00a0the Clean Air for the Long Haul Cohort celebrated this rule<\/a> as an important step in addressing this burden and redressing historical harms. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, now the EPA in its campaign to put polluter profits over not only environmental justice communities, b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ut also our climate and the public health, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is proposing to delay this important rule from taking effect before this year's fleet hits the road<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this I would like to underscore that this rule is a critical step in redressing the harms and burdens our transportation sector places on environmental justice communities and that more work is still needed to be done. A<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> delay of this rule is unacceptable, and actually takes us in the opposite direction of where we should be going. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this I urge the EPA to withdraw this rule, and instead consider an approach that centers the environmental justice communities most harmed from transportation, power and other pollution. Thank you for your time.<\/span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\r\nWE ACT for Environmental Justice is a Northern Manhattan membership-based organization whose mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and\/or low-income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices. WE ACT has offices in New York and Washington, D.C. Visit us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/v5.weact.org\/\">weact.org<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/weactforej\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weact4ej\">Twitter\/X<\/a>, and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/weact4ej\">Instagram<\/a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","include_drop_cap":false}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WE ACT Testimony on the EPA Light Duty Vehicle Rule Delay 2026 - WE ACT for Environmental Justice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/we-act-testimony-on-the-epa-light-duty-vehicle-rule-delay-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WE ACT Testimony on the EPA Light Duty Vehicle Rule Delay 2026 - 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