Republican attorneys general from 25 states are warning the Biden administration that a proposal to force carmakers to go electric in the name of fighting climate change is unlawful, a potential precursor for a legal challenge from GOP officials.
The officials told the Environmental Protection Agency that its proposed emissions reduction rule for tailpipes that critics have described as a “de facto ban” on gas-powered vehicles is “unlawful, unwise and unsustainable.”
The administration is already facing other environmental lawsuits brought by similar coalitions of Republican attorneys general. Those challenges are against the EPA’s so-called WOTUS rule that increases federal authority over small waterways like streams and wetlands; the EPA allowing California to set its own vehicle emission standards stronger than the federal government’s; and the EPA’s greenlight of a California regulation to transition diesel trucks and semis to electric.
Such a rapid phaseout of gas-powered vehicles, the Republican officials said, would jeopardize consumer safety, economic stability and national security. In separate comments submitted to the EPA, the American Petroleum Institute said such a regulation would be a “de facto ban” on internal combustion engines “that will eliminate competition, distort the market and restrict consumer choice, while being potentially more costly to taxpayers.”
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