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> These reductions will improve public health and provide environmental justice for communities who live near freeways and other heavily trafficked roadways, wh
by version_five 5y ago
> These reductions will improve public health and provide environmental justice for communities who live near freeways and other heavily trafficked roadways, which are disproportionately low-income communities of color.
It's ironic how this kind of thing gets billed as helping some disadvantaged group, when every regulation like this (environmental, plus regulatory capture) is super regressive and but far the hardest on poor people.
I have no idea about the environmental benefits or whatever cost/benefit analysis has been done, but I know all of this ends up being part of the "war on the poor" that helps keep them in their place while people who are well off continue to do what they want.
Also, look for a lot more well off people driving "commercial vehicles" as soon as regs make it so you can't get a normal truck / SUV. Poor people will be stuck in some econobox autoshare delivering our uber eats, while we all drive F550s