EPA Says Upcoming Model Idling Law to Promote Consistency
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he Environmental Protection Agency said it expects a draft of a model truck idling law aimed at helping state and local governments create more consistent idling laws to be released later this year.
EPA spokeswoman Tanya Meekins said the model law would be voluntary. “The model law provides an opportunity to implement a tool that will work to reduce idling, because it was developed with the trucking industry and states working together,” she said.
Currently, about 25 states and dozens of counties and cities have laws restricting idling to as few as three minutes and to as much as half an hour.
