This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The saga of the United States Postal Service’s planned gas-guzzling fleet continues.
Sixteen states and two environmental activist groups—Earthjustice and the National Resources Defense Council—are suing the USPS to halt its purchase of a fleet of of gas-guzzling mail trucks. Postmaster general Louis DeJoy has come under fire in recent months for his decision to move forward with a contract for 165,000 new postal trucks—90 percent of which would run on gas and get just 8.6 miles per gallon.
In their suit, the environmental groups point out that DeJoy did not begin an environmental review of the contract until after the Postal Service had already issued a $483 million initial payment to Oshkosh Defense, the manufacturer of the new trucks. The Environmental Protection Agency has contended…
