Attorney General Marshall Files Brief to Stop Biden Harris Administration’s Electric Truck Mandate

For Immediate Release:
October 17, 2024

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(Montgomery, Ala.)- Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to stop the Biden-Harris Administration from imposing an electric-vehicle mandate on truck manufacturers. A coalition of 24 States teamed up in Nebraska v. EPA to challenge the new rule.

"The Biden-Harris Administration has declared war on American energy, and Americans are tired of its direct impact on their bank accounts," said Attorney General Marshall. "If Hurricane Helene and Milton taught us anything, it's that we cannot rely entirely on electric vehicles. We must have secure, affordable, and reliable access to internal-combustion trucks which have kept our country moving for decades."

In April, the federal Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA) published a rule imposing stringent tailpipe emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles that effectively force manufacturers to produce more electric trucks and fewer internal-combustion trucks. The Attorneys General argued that EPA's electric-truck mandate raises a "major question" that Congress has not clearly authorized EPA to decide. The brief points out that just one tenth of one percent of all heavy-duty trucks sold today are powered by a battery, but that the Biden-Harris rule would increase that number to 45 percent in less than a decade. That massive shift in the nation's trucking and logistics industries will slow down the transportation of essential goods, stress the electric grid, and drastically raise prices for Americans. The brief also argues that EPA has never before forced manufacturers to produce electric versions of heavy-duty vehicles and that allowing the electric-truck mandate to stand would short circuit the ongoing policy debate that should be left to Congress and the States.

In addition to Attorney General Marshall, attorneys general from the following States joined the brief against the Biden-Harris Administration: Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Click here to read the full brief.

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