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Biofuels groups joined oil and gas producers this week to file a lawsuit seeking to block the Biden administration’s new tailpipe emissions standards that they say would effectively end the sale of new fuel-powered vehicles. for gasoline by 2032.
The American Petroleum Institute American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers has already been joined by the National Corn Growers Association, the American Farm Bureau Federation and several automobile dealers as co-petitioners in the lawsuit arguing that the Environmental Protection Agency has exceeded its authority under the EPA. Clean Air, which gives the agency the power to regulate vehicle emissions.
In March, the EPA issued final new vehicle emissions standards for light and medium vehicles that require 68% of new passenger vehicles and 43% of new midsize trucks and vans to be electric by 2032, which would force automakers to produce and sell more electric vehicles to meet the new standards.
“EPA has exceeded its congressional authority with this regulation that will eliminate most new gasoline cars and traditional hybrids from the U.S. market in less than a decade,” the API said.
The EPA “went overboard by finalizing fleet-wide average standards, rather than concrete standards that all cars and trucks must meet,” according to AFPM. “Given that no traditional gasoline or diesel hybrid today can achieve 85 grams/mile, the EPA’s averaging scheme… is clearly intended to force the adoption of electric vehicles.”
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