WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump signed into law three Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions disapproving California’s vehicle emission waivers. Congressional disapproval of California’s electric vehicle (EV) mandates is another step toward ending the EV mandate on all Americans pursuant to President Trump’s “Unleashing American Energy” Executive Order.
“President Trump’s actions delivered a decisive blow to California’s Electric Vehicle Mandate. The Biden EPA rules granting California’s waivers allowed one coast to set national policy while imposing significant costs and limiting consumer choice for Americans in every state. We are working to end the EV mandate because, in part, doing so will usher in a new era of prosperity for American auto workers, providing the economic liberty needed to restore this quintessential industry. Thank you to all the members of Congress who did their part to get these resolutions on President Trump’s desk. The President campaigned on this, the American people voted for it, and this Administration is proudly delivering on this mandate. Today is a great day for consumer freedom,” said EPA Administrator Zeldin.
In February, Administrator Zeldin announced alongside President Trump and the newly created National Energy Dominance Council, that the EPA would transmit to Congress three waiver rules granted by the Biden EPA – California’s Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks, and Heavy-Duty Engine Omnibus NOx in order to comply with the agency’s duties under the CRA.
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It’s good to see the scam edifice dismantled brick by brick. But Congress better get its act together and legislate accordingly – as in amending the Clean Air Act to exclude any class of harm from “greenhouse gas” “warming.” There is no good physical reason to have ever thought that climate harm was even possible from emissions of CO2, CH4, N2O and the other compounds.
More good news.
Every watt of green power – nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric – is already spoken for. It isn’t enough, and we have to burn carbon fuels – natural gas, oil, coal – to make up the difference. Any additional watt used to charge an electric vehicle will only add to the carbon consumption going on.
EVs do not end pollution, they only transfer it from the tailpipe to the smokestack.
Yes.
EVs have been called “displaced emission vehicles”
( IIRC I got the term from someone on WUWT )
I’ve always called them Zero Emissions Here vehicles.
I have referred to them as coal burners because you burned coal to make the power that charged their batteries.
Not much true anymore:
from Duck Assist & Wikipedia:
In 2022, coal generated about 19.5% of the electricity at utility-scale facilities in the United States, a decline from 38.6% in 2014 and 51% in 2001. The trend shows a significant decrease in coal’s contribution to electricity generation over the years.
Some places (see Washington State) it’s water power; coal almost none.
‘EVs do not end pollution, they only transfer it from the tailpipe to the smokestack.’
If you’re referring to CO2, there’s no pollution. As for any real pollutants, tailpipe emissions from vehicles equipped with catalytic converters are often cleaner than the ambient air in which they operate.,
Real pollution is easier to clean at a CO2 smokestack plant rather than many tailpipes. Plus, those plants are usually not in the middle of densely populated areas. So, if the argument stopped here, EVs would not be a bad choice.
But EVs bring other pollution problems such increased rubber particulates from worn tires.
And every time an EV burns, it is massive highly toxic pollution and very costly disruptive event.
Since 1900, where have the many billion pounds of heat-absorbing black rubber particles and dust gone? The short simple answer is: anywhere and everywhere! These rubber particles and dust probably contribute to the UHI effect. And there is brown dust from brake shoes and disk pads to consider.
Lee Zeldin would have been governor of NY but for the Left’s ability to mobilize women post-Dobbs. Ironically, he’s serving the citizens of this nation to a much greater extent at EPA.
Good point. We are a basket case on energy policy here in NY, but Zeldin is showing remarkable enthusiasm for good sense at EPA, with probably far more impact. Now we’ll see what happens. Elise Stefanik for governor!
Speaking of energy policy, any chance as the green lunacy falls apart that NY will ever allow development of natural gas resources as they did just to the south in Pennsylvania?
Let’s hope so. We are sitting on many decades worth of clean natural gas in the Marcellus and Utica formations.
I guess i should have qualified that question with, in our lifetimes? 🙂
‘…falls apart that NY will ever allow development of natural gas resources…’
Or allow NG pipelines to traverse NYS for that matter. I’ve always wondered why the commerce clause in the Constitution, which presumably was intended to prevent the individual states from interfering with commerce among same, somehow gets ignored in the case of NY’s effective natural gas embargo on NE.
I agree. Not a lawyer or anything, but my guess is it would only become a potential constitutional issue if one of the potentially affected states sued. The commerce clause probably has not yet become an issue since most (if not all) of the potentially affected states (northeast and New England) are generally on board with New York’s environmental self-immolation.
New England has been a problem since the ink dried on the Constitution.
BREAKING NEWS: It is being reported here that Governor Newsom has already signed an order re-instating the clean-car mandate, and he, working with our state AG, have already filed a suit to overturn the Congressionally-passed acts. I wonder how much of my many California tax dollars go to lawsuits against the Federal Government.
Yes, David Dibbell, it is long past time for Congress to stop kicking the cans down the road and actually lead the country through well-considered legislation.
Winning!
Don’t forget to relocate the headquarters of EPA and other agencies to the north slope of Alaska. Also move the district court hearings there.
Kind of hard buying EVs that are burning on a cargo ship at sea, eh wot?
Gives new meaning to the term “Fire Sale!”. 😎
I see what you did there.
😉
It must be frustrating to be in Zeldin’s position. On the one hand you kind of want to let California commit economic suicide as the only way they will ever learn a lesson. On the other hand doing so will just create a bigger mess the rest of the country will have to clean up.