Representative Shelly Boshart Davis January 24 Legislative Update

January 24, 2025 – Shelly Boshart Davis: HD-15 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

Friends and Neighbors,
Here are some highlights and important updates from last week and helpful community information for you!

– Shelly

CALL TO ACTION: Stop the Diesel Ban

On January 1, Oregon’s diesel ban went into effect, but with President Trump’s executive order promising to rescind EV mandates, the future remains uncertain, causing chaos and confusion among Oregonians and Oregon businesses.

For months now, I have been calling for a delay to these rules and now we have a chance to make it happen. Even if President Trump’s executive order goes into effect, litigation will surely tie it up in the courts for months, if not years. Oregonians need certainty now.

This upcoming Thursday, January 30, the House Committee on Climate, Energy, and Environment is holding a public hearing on HB 3119, my bill to delay the Advanced Clean Truck rules. We need an army of working Oregonians to make their voices heard.

Whether you’re a truck driver, someone who depends on heavy-duty pickups to make a living, enjoys an RV lifestyle, appreciates the necessity of diesel vehicles like tow trucks and cement mixers, or an everyday Oregonian who doesn’t want to see their cost of living continue to increase because of unnecessary regulations, your voice is needed NOW! Will you sign up to testify before the committee?

Here are the details:

When: Thursday, January 30th, at 8 AM

Where: Oregon State Capitol, Hearing Room F

How: Sign up to testify by clicking here, and finding the “Register to Testify” button under the ‘Public Hearing’ section. If you can’t spare a few minutes to give live testimony, no worries, you can submit written testimony. Instructions how to submit written testimony, go here.

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You can watch my interview with KPTV News on Trump’s executive order and the impacts in Oregon here.

Advanced Clean Trucks in the Transportation Committee

On Tuesday, the Joint Transportation Committee asked industry experts to talk about the impact of the Advanced Clean Trucks rule. The testimony was striking. The bureaucratic jargon that comes from DEQ to whistle past the graveyard about the impact of these rules is disingenuous.

I was particularly impressed with the testimony of Sean Waters, VP of Product Integrity at Daimler Trucks North America, and Jordan Papé, CEO of Pape Kenworth and Pacific Clean Fuels. As people who sell trucks and have to deal with the real-world consequences of these regulations, no one understands them better. If you have a hard time following along with these regulations (I live it as a business owner and a legislator, and I still get confused), I would recommend you watch their entire 10-minute testimony here.

Here are a few of the biggest takeaways from their testimony:

DEQ confirmed that there is only ONE charger in Oregon that can charge semi-trucks.
It would require Oregon to build 55 commercial grade chargers per week, starting 3 weeks ago until 2035, for the commercial truck industry to be able to comply with the ACT rules. That’s just for semi-trucks, not including pickups and other medium and heavy duty EVs.
Manufacturers are already limiting the sale of new clean diesel engines. A 2010 engine is more than 90% cleaner than a pre-2010 engine. The ACT rule, in practice, is actually limiting the number of these new, cleaner trucks to be sold in Oregon.
NOx emissions from diesel engines have declined 99.8% since the first NOx emission standards were introduced in the 1980’s.
A heavy-duty battery electric truck costs about twice as much as a diesel truck but can only go about half the distance of that diesel truck. Those battery-powered trucks can only carry about 75% of the load. This will drive up the cost of everyday essentials we all need.
100 heavy-duty battery electric trucks consume about as much power as all the homes in the city of Eugene. If the entire Class 8 fleet (the heaviest heavy-duty trucks) in the United States converted to battery electric, we would need the same amount of power as Bonneville Power Administration’s 31 dams and 1 nuclear power plant to create enough power to charge them all.
- We would need to build a Bonneville Power Administration every year for the next ten years to power a transition to electric trucks that the ACT regulations demand.

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