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Twelve billion dollars in projected savings is the number the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is putting behind a proposed rollback of Biden-era heavy-duty truck emissions requirements, with officials contending that lower trucking costs would flow through to American families at the grocery store and beyond.
The case for the rollback rests on supply chain cost relief; what complicates it is the agency's own claim that the proposal retains nearly 90 percent of the nitrogen oxide reductions planned under the 2023 rule it is now modifying.
The headline figure for buyers is up to $6,000 per new truck in projected cost reductions, a number the agency attributed to changes in emissions compliance requirements.
EPA air chief Aaron Szabo told Fox News Digital the math runs downstream: cheaper trucks mean a cheaper supply chain, which means lower prices for food and household goods that travel by truck.
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