The American Petroleum Institute, along with a coalition of energy and trucking groups, recently filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency to block new emissions standards.
The groups filed a lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the EPA’s finalized emissions standards for light-duty and medium-duty vehicles. On Tuesday, they filed a separate lawsuit in the same court challenging the EPA’s latest emissions rules for heavy-duty vehicles.
“It destroys the reliability of America’s supply chains and ultimately increases costs.”
The Biden administration announced in March that it was finalizing the “toughest greenhouse gas standards ever” for cargo trucks and buses. Blaze News As previously reported, the regulations would apply to vehicles from model years 2027 through 2032. The EPA also touted that it would impose its “strongest ever” emissions standards on 2032 model year vehicles. Passenger carslight trucks, and other medium-sized vehicles.
According to the administration, the recently finalized standards will “avoid more than 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions and provide nearly $100 billion in annual net benefits to society, including $13 billion in annual public health benefits from improved air quality and $62 billion in reduced annual fuel and maintenance and repair costs for drivers.”
The standard would require up to 56% of new cars sold between 2030 and 2032 to be electric or other zero-emission vehicles. Reuters report.
Many other groups have joined the lawsuit against the EPA, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, the American Agriculture Council, the American Fuel and Petrochemical Industries Association, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and the National Corn Growers Association.
“The EPA is forcing a switch to technology that doesn’t currently exist in these types of vehicles, and even if it is one day possible, it will almost certainly affect average Americans,” said Ryan Myers, senior vice president and general counsel at API.
Mays said API was taking this action “to protect American consumers, American manufacturing workers, and our nation’s hard-won energy security from this administration’s intrusive edicts.”
“The EPA is trying to impose a one-size-fits-all approach to addressing climate change by prioritizing electric vehicles over other climate solutions like corn ethanol,” said Harold Wahl, president of the National Corn Growers Association.
OOIDA President Todd Spencer said strict regulations are “causing truck drivers at small and medium-sized businesses, which account for 96 percent of trucking, to “get away from home.”not exist“
“This rule will destroy the reliability of America’s supply chains and ultimately increase costs for consumers. Small trucking companies will be overwhelmed by the enormous costs and operational challenges of effectively mandating zero-emission trucks, yet the Administration appears intent on pushing through one misguided environmental regulation after another,” Spencer said.
The EPA declined a Reuters request for comment.
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