California regulators approved a landmark rule  requiring automakers to sell electric trucks in the state. The rule will require at least 40% of all tractor trailers, and 75% of delivery trucks and vans, sold in California to be zero emission by 2035. Though work trucks and delivery vans make up a small fraction of vehicles on the road, they are some of the largest sources of pollution in the transportation sector, in part because they travel so many more miles than regular passenger vehicles. The rule will have outsized benefits for communities of color which are exposed to significantly higher levels of pollution.

“You’re talking about upward of 21,500 trucks that travel through our communities per day,” Anthony Victoria, a community organizer in the largely Latinx Inland Empire who organized volunteers to count trucks near an Amazon hub, told the New York Times. At least seven states and Washington, D.C. are expected to adopt the rule. (New York Times $, E&E $, AP, LA Times $, San Francisco Chronicle, Capital Public Radio, Quartz, Mercury News, Gizmodo, Electrek)