Biden Admin­is­tra­tion Set To Com­plete Reg­u­la­tions Tar­get­ing Gas-Pow­ered Vehi­cles

Biden Administration Set To Complete Regulations Targeting Gas-Powered Vehicles

The Biden admin­is­tra­tion will like­ly com­plete reg­u­la­tions this week designed to pun­ish gas-pow­ered vehi­cles and pave the way for elec­tric vehi­cles, whose aver­age cost is rough­ly more than twice as expen­sive as aver­age sub­com­pact car.
In its pro­posed rules pub­lished in May 2023, the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency wrote that it want­ed to tar­get vehi­cles that would phase-in over mod­el years 2027 through 2032, stat­ing, “EPA finds it appro­pri­ate to set new stan­dards for mod­el years after 2026 for both cri­te­ria pol­lu­tants and GHG at this time, rather than con­tin­u­ing its prio …