{"id":9345,"date":"2026-02-20T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/?p=9345"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:40:14","slug":"editorial-when-it-comes-to-emissions-canada-cant-afford-to-go-it-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/editorial-when-it-comes-to-emissions-canada-cant-afford-to-go-it-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: When it Comes to Emissions, Canada Can\u2019t Afford to Go it Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By James Manzies, Today’s Trucking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration has spiked the GHG Phase 3 rules,<\/a> leaving Canada in a quandary about what to do next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rescinded the \u2018Endangerment Finding,\u2019 which underpinned emissions regulations targeting greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide. In doing so, poof, the GHG Phase 3 rules slated to be phased in beginning in 2027 have gone up in smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the regulations that were seen to be forcing zero-emission trucks onto the market. The move won\u2019t affect the EPA27 low-NOx regulation \u2013 the engine makers are already too far down that path to go back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Canada, like the U.S., was committed to GHG Phase 3. As of this writing, we still are. Yet, it makes very little sense to continue on this path. The truck manufacturers aren\u2019t going to build a Canadian emission spec\u2019 just for us. This market is too small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the costs of complying with GHG Phase 3 \u2013 when the Americans don\u2019t have too \u2013 would be competitively punitive for Canadian fleets. Staying the course should be a non-starter, despite our best environmental intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This won\u2019t sit well in Liberal Ottawa, but it\u2019s time we follow suit and abandon GHG Phase 3. There\u2019s no other practical alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. trucking industry has been near-unanimous in its support for the EPA\u2019s decision to kill the regulation. It was too restrictive. It would force battery-electric trucks into applications they aren\u2019t yet well suited for. It would foist burdensome costs on operators and ramp up the adoption of technologies not yet ready for prime time in all but niche applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, while battery-electric trucks produce no tailpipe emissions, I\u2019ve yet to see a well-to-wheel analysis that makes the mining of metals needed for battery production or the end-of-life disposal of used battery packs go away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Say what you want about the Trump administration, but putting an end to GHG Phase 3 is a prudent decision that Canada must follow. And it doesn\u2019t have to be viewed as a defeat, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at the progress the industry has made in slashing its emissions. It takes 60 trucks of today\u2019s vintage to produce the particulate matter and NOx emissions produced by just one pre-emission truck. That\u2019s a win that should be celebrated, not forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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