Thread by @RussellSieg

DeJoy tried to sneak the USPS sweetheart deal to Oshkosh Defense for dirty gas mail trucks using super flawed & lazy analysis

Not gonna happen on Biden's watch 🇺🇸

Biden officials push to hold up $11.3 billion USPS truck contract, citing climate damage
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

USPS contract is for 165,000 vehicles, which is 1/3 of the US Gov't fleet

just imagine the market making power if all of those new trucks were EVs!

DeJoy and his USPS minions really screwed the pooch on this Oshkosh Defense deal...

"As noted, USPS has already awarded a vehicle acquisition contract and funded as much as $482 million to the vendor prior to initiating the NEPA process―exactly what CEQ regulations prohibit."

the gang who couldn't kickback good...

"Contrary to CEQ’s NEPA regulatory requirement to identify methodologies used and make explicit reference to sources relied upon for conclusions in an EIS, USPS also chose to inappropriately limit disclosure of such information, "

"Contrary to regulatory requirements" ...does that mean illegal?

$11 Billion crony deal go bye-bye?

and in Wisconsin, a crucial swing state 😒

DeJoy, you have to show your work, doncha know?

"effectively preventing the public, federal agencies, and decision-makers from understanding and evaluating the Postal Service’s ability and flexibility to purchase additional clean vehicles."

MAGA cost-benefit analysis fatally flawed?

"TCO analysis that served as the basis for USPS selection of the preferred alternative is not transparent and is potentially flawed and out of date. It failed to explain the basis for the electric vehicle cost assumptions employed"

DeJoy can't deliver for #PetroMob and @KochIndustries

Sad!

"and did not consider the financial risk from near complete reliance on petroleum-based fuels with volatile prices."

GHG = greenhouse gas, a word banished by Trump Admin is back, baby!

"Despite corrections offered by EPA in its comments on the draft EIS, USPS systematically & substantially underestimated GHG emissions from its new ICE vehicles, while overestimating GHG emissions from BEVs. "

ICE = Internal Combustion Engine,

not Immigration...

BEV = Battery Electric Vehicle, ie not a hybrid

"USPS systematically & substantially underestimated...overestimated" - sounds bad!

#FireDeJoy

PetroMob can't contract good?

"Further, the contract award effectively limited the choice of alternatives that USPS considered in the EIS. USPS chose not to consider in detail even a single feasible alternative to its proposal that would be more environmentally protective"

Laughable analysis

assuming routes would never have improved charging station infrastructure and totally unrealistic

"evaluating only alternatives the Postal Service itself considered to be infeasible (e.g., 100 percent BEVs given longer rural routes)."

violation of NEPA - is that bad?

"USPS’s actions are inconsistent w/NEPA’s purpose to inform decisions before they are made, in violation of NEPA regulatory requirements that agencies not commit resources prejudging the selection of alternatives before a final decision"

prejudging, justifying decisions already made - #FireDeJoy

"that an EIS serve as a means of assessing environmental impacts of proposed actions rather than justifying decisions already made, and that no action may be taken that would limit the choice of alternatives"

ICYMI

President Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) into law on January 1, 1970. Congress enacted NEPA to establish a national policy for the environment, provide for the establishment of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), and for other purposes.

NEPA was the first major environmental law in the United States and is often called the "Magna Carta" of Federal environmental laws. NEPA requires Federal agencies to assess the environmental effects of proposed major Federal actions prior to making decisions.

I ❤️#NEPA

Biden Admin not gonna let this opportunity pass by

"The Postal Service’s proposal as currently crafted represents a crucial lost opportunity to more rapidly reduce the carbon footprint of one of the largest government fleets in the world."

Pathetic #FireDeJoy

"A 10% commitment to clean vehicles, w/ virtually no fuel efficiency gains for the other 90% is plainly inconsistent w/ international, national, & many state GHG emissions reduction targets, as well as specific national policies to move with deliberate speed"

ya think Biden meant it when he's already signed several executive orders to mitigate climate change using all available federal government tools and funding?

"toward clean, zero-emitting vehicles, including Executive Orders 140086 and 140377 and their policies"

USPS is gonna be all-electric!

"in addition to the U.S. economy-wide target under the Paris Agreement to reduce net GHG emissions to 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030, consistent with achieving net zero emissions by 2050."

New trucks will be on the road 30 years, longer than a SCOTUS Justice term

"These policies are all driven by what the science tells us about the urgency of tackling the climate crisis. B/c this is the single largest federal vehicle procurement in the foreseeable future"

"Essential" and it may be essential to #FireDeJoy too

"a fully informed Postal Service NGDV decision on this unparalleled opportunity for the federal government to lead by example on climate and clean energy innovation is essential."