Support NRDC’s Courtroom Fight to Block a USPS Scheme to Spend Billions on
Gas-Guzzling Delivery Trucks

NRDC is heading to federal court to compel the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
to change course and invest in clean, cost-saving electric delivery trucks
— for the sake of our climate, our health, and our economy. Please make a
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Dear NRDC Activist,

Big update in our campaign to stop the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from
spending billions on dirty, climate-busting delivery trucks:

On Thursday, NRDC and our allies filed a lawsuit against the USPS to block
its illegal, short-sighted plan to purchase tens of thousands of
antiquated, gas-guzzling, polluting vehicles. Our goal is to force the
agency to change course and invest in 100% clean, electric delivery trucks
instead.

This lawsuit is the next step in our ongoing fight. Earlier this month, we
delivered nearly 500,000 messages from supporters like you opposing the
USPS's ludicrous plan at a press event outside of their Washington, D.C.,
headquarters.

NRDC and our top-notch legal team rely on supporters like you to take this
and other critical fights to federal court. Will you help?

[ [link removed] ]Please make a tax-deductible $5
donation to support NRDC's fight — in and
out of court — to push the USPS to replace its plans for a dirty energy
fleet with clean, electric vehicles. Your gift will go straight to work to
support our legal fights, tackle the climate crisis, and protect the
environment in the most effective way possible.

As the climate crisis worsens and gas prices keep rising — fueled by a
U.S. energy policy dependent on fossil fuels from petro-state
dictatorships like Russia — the USPS needs to do its part by investing in
clean, climate-friendly, electric delivery trucks.

Despite the obviousness of the need to act, Trump-appointed Postmaster
General Louis DeJoy and his allies pushed through a plan for the USPS to
spend billions of dollars to purchase dirty gas-fueled delivery trucks for
up to 90% of its new fleet of 165,000 vehicles.

These polluting trucks will be on the road for decades, spewing carbon
pollution and pushing us closer to the brink of climate catastrophe — and
flouting President Biden's bold efforts to slash climate emissions in half
by 2030.

NRDC's lawsuit, filed jointly with our labor partners at the United Auto
Workers, is asking the court to force the USPS to stop the purchase plan
and redo its shoddy environmental impact statement (EIS), which was based
on faulty data, inaccurate projections, and flawed science to ensure EVs
would NOT come out ahead.

The facts are clear: The Postal Service can save money and cut pollution
by investing in electric trucks. One study found that the USPS would save
over $4 billion in potential fuel and maintenance savings from electric
vehicles. These trucks should move us into the future by being union-built
and pollution free, not serve as relics from a dirty and unfair past.

[ [link removed] ]NRDC's lawsuit may just be the only way to stop the Postal Service's
outrageous plan. So please make a tax-deductible donation today to fuel
NRDC's legal fight with the USPS and tackle the climate crisis.

We hope you'll support us in this critically important fight for our
climate, our health, and our future.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Marc Boom
Director of Federal Affairs, NRDC

Photo: Paul Sableman via Flickr, CC BY 4.0. Donations will support our
courtroom fight to block the USPS's short-sighted plan, tackle our growing
climate crisis, and for other campaigns that allow NRDC to protect the
environment in the most effective way possible.

The mission of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is to
safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural
systems on which all life depends.

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