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?

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.

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