Wyoming Joins Sates Lawsuit Against EPA Truck Mandates
Wyoming has joined a coalition of 24 states, led by Nebraska in filing a brief against a federal electric truck mandate.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency created an electric truck mandate to increase sales of electric semi-trucks.
The EPA rule requires electric models to account for 60% of new urban delivery trucks and 25% of long-haul tractor sales by 2032.
There are a lot of problems with this, from infrastructure to reliability issues, and that the cost of electric trucks is typically two to three times more than that of diesel trucks.
Truckers will face other higher costs including the investment of at least $620 billion for charging infrastructure.
Utilities will have to spend at least $370 billion to upgrade their networks. Probably much more.
The states filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to stop the Biden-Harris Administration mandate.
"The EPA's attempt to transform the trucking industry and supply chain infrastructure goes well beyond the agency’s authority," said the news release.
"Once again, the Biden-Harris Administration’s radical climate agenda will harm Americans.
A national electric-truck mandate will raise prices for groceries, strain the electrical grid, and disrupt the transportation, logistics, biofuel, and farming industries that drive the Nebraska economy.
"Our brief makes the common-sense and rule-of-law argument that whether to require manufacturers to sell electric trucks is a highly consequential decision.
That decision should be left for Congress and the States — not for unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington."
The states argue that this mandate would create logistical problems and slow down the transportation of essential goods, stressing the electric grid as raising prices for Americans.
"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' bureaucrats in D.C. want everyone in Louisiana to drive an electric vehicle or frankly no cars at all — and now they want to transform the trucking industry to require an 'electric-truck mandate,'" Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a news release. "This would only raise prices even more for industries and consumers throughout our state and country."
States involved are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
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