NYC converts city vehicle fleet to ‘renewable’ diesel, but is it really clean?

The Adams administration says it has fully converted its heavy-duty vehicle fleet to “renewable” diesel fuel, but environmentalists question the actual impact it will have on the city’s carbon footprint.

Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday that the fueling transition, started last September, had been finished on all 12,500 of the heavy-duty vehicles in the city fleet, such as garbage trucks, fire trucks, and ambulances.