President Joe Biden on Wednesday vetoed a Republican-led Congressional resolution to nullify the Environmental Protection Agency’s emissions rules for heavy-duty trucks.
The veto, one of six so far in Biden’s first term, keeps in place the EPA’s tightened 2027 model-year standards, which seek to reduce negative public health and environmental effects of nitrogen oxide, or NOx, emissions. The new standards are 80% stronger than current ones, according to the agency.
