First appearance on Fox: On Friday, a group of more than 30 House Republicans is introducing a resolution that would overturn President Biden’s actions targeting gasoline-powered vehicles as part of his efforts to combat climate change.
Nearly 30 Republicans, led by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), are introducing the bill. parliamentary review act, a law that goes back nearly 30 years and allows Congress to undo federal regulations. The resolution would block tough multi-pollutant emission standards governing gasoline-powered vehicles that the Environmental Protection Agency finalized last month.
“Despite persistent pleas to stay away from the car keys, President Biden has issued yet another radical EPA rule that would effectively impose an EV mandate on our country,” Clyde told Fox News Digital. We are strengthening it,” he said. “Hardworking Americans are already fighting inflation, but they cannot afford to endure the president’s unjust power grab and should not be forced to bear this burden.”
“American consumers have always been entitled to the freedom to decide which cars to buy and drive,” he continued. “Congress must stop the Biden administration’s dangerous overreach from hampering automakers, enriching Communist China, and crushing Americans.”
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Congressman Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) will appear at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on March 24, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Clyde’s resolution received support from a variety of energy advocacy and conservative groups, including the American Energy Alliance, Americans for Prosperity, Eagle Forum, and Heritage Action for America. This would be the first formal action by Congress in response to the emissions standards finalized by Biden.
According to EPA regulations, car manufacturers will be forced to Immediately reduce greenhouse gas, hydrocarbon, nitrogen oxide, and particulate matter emissions from new passenger cars, light trucks, large pickups, and vans starting with the 2027 model year. Overall, this rule is the most stringent of its kind ever finalized at the federal level.
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According to the EPA, the regulation will broadly help “tackling the climate crisis” by reducing the transportation sector’s carbon emissions by a staggering 7.2 billion tons over the plan period, which runs through 2032. . Automakers will be forced to increase production and sales of electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, conventional hybrid vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles.
Under the EPA’s so-called “low-cost” model outlined in the rule, automakers will be able to make 56% of their light-duty vehicle sales battery electric by 2032, and an additional 13%, officials said. It will be mandatory for all vehicles to be hybrid vehicles.
President Biden (left) and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan. (Getty Images)
“Three years ago, I set an ambitious goal: Half of all new cars and trucks sold in 2030 would be zero-emission vehicles,” Biden said in a statement after the regulations were finalized on March 20. That is what we will do.”
“I rallied American automakers. I rallied American autoworkers,” he added. “Together, we have made historic progress. Hundreds of new factories have been built and expanded across the country, hundreds of billions in private investment and thousands of high-wage union jobs. Jobs have been created. And we’re going to achieve our 2030 goals and move forward in the world’s years ahead. ”
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EPA regulations have been heavily criticized by some state officials, Republican and Democratic lawmakers, agricultural industry groups such as the National Corn Growers Association, and energy groups such as the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. .
Electric cars parked at a charging station in Sacramento, California. (AP Photo/Ricci Pedroncelli, File)
In 2023, 9.5% of new compact vehicle sales will be EVs, up from 7% in 2022 and 4.3% in 2021. According to the data This award was given by the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, an industry group representing major automakers. At the same time, EVs remain more expensive than traditional gasoline cars.
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The percentage of Americans who said they were considering purchasing an EV decreased from 55% to 44% last year. According to a Gallup poll Conducted in March.
Asked about the Republican resolution, the EPA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
