How Experts Say a New EPA Proposal Could Shift U.S. Auto Makers' Strategy on EVs

How experts say a new EPA proposal could shift U.S. auto makers' strategy on EVs

An EPA proposal seeks to revoke a key emissions finding which experts say would remove pressure on auto makers to produce EVs.

Trump’s deregulations boost energy industry profits

For over 15 years, an Endangerment Finding allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate emissions, in particular greenhouse gases, from cars and trucks, power plants and oil and natural gas drilling sites. According to Earthjustice, “The ‘Endangerment Finding’ is the EPA’s scientific a

Trump’s EPA targets Biden’s $1 trillion EV mandate: What’s really at stake for drivers and the auto industry

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just set off what may be the most consequential policy shift in the auto industry in over a decade. On Tuesday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposal to rescind the controversial 2009 Endangerment Finding, a legal foundation that has been used for 16 years to justify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regulations impacting every car, truck, and bus sold in the U.S. If finalized, this proposal…

U.S. EPA to reconsider whether greenhouse gases pose a danger

In its ongoing efforts to make America great again, the Trump administration is set to also, well, make America smoggy again. According to a Reuters report, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has plans to reverse its belief in the scientific research that greenhouse-gas emissions are a danger to public health, thus toppling the legal foundation that has guided all of the U.S. federal government's major climate regulations.