{"id":81157,"date":"2025-03-13T12:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=81157"},"modified":"2025-03-13T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:03:45","slug":"1145979_trump-epa-takes-aim-at-biden-emissions-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=81157","title":{"rendered":"Trump EPA takes aim at Biden emissions regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump Administration is looking to roll back stricter emissions standards put in place by the Biden administration covering both light-duty passenger cars and heavy-duty commercial trucks.<\/p>\n

The EPA said Wednesday in a press release that it was targeting greenhouse-gas emissions standards for model years 2027-2032<\/strong>, as well as rules further restricting smog-forming nitrous-oxide (NOx)<\/strong> emissions from heavy-duty trucks, which the Trump agency argued “provided the foundation for the Biden-Harris electric vehicle mandate” while making vehicles more expensive.<\/p>\n

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\"2025<\/p>\n

2025 Chevrolet Silverado EV<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

No such mandate was put in place by the previous administration, although the stricter emissions rules for light-duty vehicles are expected to lead to increased market share for electric vehicles. When the rule was finalized in 2024<\/a>, the EPA estimated that it would cut fleet emissions by 50%<\/strong> by 2032 compared to 2027 levels, and that between 35% and 56% of new vehicles sold between 2030 and 2032 would need to be electric to hit that target. Although a higher adoption of plug-in hybrids would have allowed a lower percentage of fully electric vehicles.<\/p>\n

The heavy-duty truck emissions rules<\/a> now being attacked by the Trump Administration were announced in 2022 and are 80% stricter than prior standards. At the time, the EPA estimated this would result in up to 2,900 fewer premature deaths annually, 1.1 million fewer lost school days for children, and $29 billion in annual net benefits. But theses rules don’t mandate EVs<\/strong> either.<\/p>\n

\"Freightliner<\/p>\n

Freightliner eCascadia electric semi-truck<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Weakening emissions standards has been a priority for the second Trump Administration, which is even conflicting with policies<\/a> and talking points from the last Trump Administration, in trying to make cleaner cars seem bad.<\/p>\n

In addition to emissions rules that could encourage more electric vehicles, the administration has acted to freeze federal EV charger funding<\/a>\u2014something automakers aren’t happy<\/a> about. California has vowed to continue its charging infrastructure buildout whether these funds remain available or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trump Administration is looking to roll back stricter emissions standards put in place by the Biden administration covering both light-duty passenger cars and heavy-duty commercial trucks. The EPA said Wednesday in a press release that it was targeting greenhouse-gas emissions standards for model years 2027-2032, as well as rules further restricting smog-forming nitrous-oxide (NOx) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}