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For the car industry the EPA standards are expected to drive widespread use of filters to reduce gasoline particulate matter emissions and spur greater deployment of CO2reducing technologies for gasoline-powered vehicles.

The second set of proposed standards announced today, the “Greenhouse Gas Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles - Phase 3,” would apply to heavy-duty vocational vehicles (such as delivery trucks, refuse haulers or dump trucks, public utility trucks, transit, shuttle, school buses) and trucks typically used to haul freight. These standards would complement the criteria pollutant standards for model year 2027 and beyond heavyduty vehicles that EPA finalized in December 2022 and represent the third phase of EPA’s Clean Trucks Plan.