On behalf of our client, the International Union, Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (“UAW”), and in cooperation with the Natural Resources Defense Council, we recently filed a lawsuit challenging the United States Postal Service’s failure to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) when considering its plan to acquire a fleet of new vehicles. The lawsuit alleges that the Postal Service failed to take the hard look that NEPA requires at obvious environmental impacts and alternatives to reduce those impacts. For example, despite knowing that these vehicles would be produced at a new—and likely non-unionized—facility in South Carolina, USPS never analyzed any environmental or socioeconomic impacts associated with where or how its new vehicles would be built. Likewise, the Postal Service refused to consider any alternatives proposed by the public that would be better for the environment and workers. A copy of the complaint can be found here.