Another EPA Lawsuit Manifests
As we have said before, another day brings another lawsuit. This time, it is a coalition of 24 different states and various economic interests sending the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the federal appellate court for review.
Details
The coalition released a brief explaining their intentions for this lawsuit, targeting specifically, the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles-Phase 3.
“Despite that lack of congressional authorization, EPA has announced a de facto electric heavy-duty vehicle mandate that, like its light-duty-vehicle mandate, sets greenhouse-gas emission standards that manufacturers can meet only by decreasing production of internal-combustion-engine vehicles and dedicating an increasing percentage of their fleets to electric vehicles or subsidizing the electric-vehicle production of their competitors through credit purchases,” the brief said. “These new standards are so stringent that EPA projects some 45% of America’s new heavy-duty vehicles will be electric by 2032 to comply — up from practically zero today.”
The brief continues, “…the projected costs to manufacturers alone would be well over $50 billion, which will be passed on to businesses and consumers. EPA’s electric-vehicle bias also caused it to arbitrarily ignore biofuels as a “viable” and “obvious alternative” for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
In short, the briefing and challenge to the appellate court is a battle between environmental and economic interests within the United States. The line between the two sides becomes muddied further when considering the implication of how electricity is generated, as well as not assigning a “score” of reduced environmental impact to alternative fuel sources such as biodiesel.
Conclusion
It will be interesting to see where it goes to, but the fact that it is an appellate case suggests that the coalition’s prior attempts to stop this through the court have currently failed. It might just go up to the Supreme Court, where they may decline to hear the case, in which case the next highest court’s decision wins, or they may rule on it one way or another. Whatever the case, one thing is for sure: the coalition on the side of the economy is not taking these strict regulations without fighting against them first.
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