POLITICO NEWSROOM

The fight to electrify the Postal Service

Episode Summary

For weeks, Democrats, the White House and E-P-A have pressed Postmaster General Louis Dejoy to make a major move: commit to electrifying the Postal Service’s delivery vehicles in the coming years. But, Dejoy has pushed back on that effort since the USPS is in a dire financial situation. POLITICO’s Tanya Snyder reports.

Episode Notes

For weeks, Democrats, the White House and E-P-A have pressed Postmaster General Louis Dejoy to make a major move: commit to electrifying the Postal Service’s delivery vehicles in the coming years. But, Dejoy has pushed back on that effort since the USPS is in a dire financial situation. POLITICO’s Tanya Snyder reports.

 

Kelsey Tamborrino is a reporter covering clean energy and is the host of the POLITICO Energy podcast. 

Tanya Snyder covers transportation for POLITICO. 

Nirmal Mulaikal is a POLITICO audio host-producer. 

Carlos Prieto is an audio producer for POLITICO. 

Raghu Manavalan is a senior editor for POLITICO audio.

Jenny Ament is the interim executive producer of POLITICO’s audio department.