The Biden administration rolled out a series of new emissions regulations for passenger vehicles and light trucks that it said would “unlock” $190 billion in benefits for American consumers.
The regulations will be enforced beginning with 2023 car models and will be revised with more stringent standards in 2027, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced.
The EPA said the new emissions standards would ultimately quicken the transition from traditional engine vehicles to zero-emission cars.
“This day is truly historic,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said during an event on Monday.
“At EPA, our priority is to protect public health, especially in overburdened communities, while responding to the President’s ambitious climate agenda,” Regan said in a statement prior to the event.
“Today we take a giant step forward in delivering on those goals while paving the way toward an all-electric, zero-emissions transportation future.”
The standards are the “most ambitious” rules of their kind ever put into place, the EPA said. They are projected to cut car emissions by 3 billion tons over the next three decades, the equivalent of half the carbon dioxide emitted in the U.S. per year.
The rule announced Monday will also lead to 15% less gasoline consumption nationwide, according to the agency.
“Today’s action is a tremendous step in the right direction in our fight against the climate crisis,” House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone said in a statement.
“Paired with the investments in the bipartisan infrastructure law, this action will accelerate the process of transforming our transportation sector to the benefit of public health and the environment.”
“I applaud the Biden EPA for meaningfully addressing the climate crisis once again, and I look forward to continuing to work with the administration to swiftly and ambitiously tackle climate pollution from the rest of the transportation sector,” Pallone added.
The action Monday is the latest move in the Biden administration’s crusade against climate change which aims to lean heavily on pushing Americans to buy electric vehicles.
President Joe Biden has outlined a plan to ensure 50% of new car sales are electric by 2030 and that every addition to the federal governments’ vehicle fleet is electric by 2035.
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Wrong. The electrical vehicle does not reduce carbon dioxide compared to an internal combustion engine. The amount of energy required to move the car is the same and if there are ANY electrical power transmission losses getting the electricity from the power plant to the vehicle it uses more power. Think California buying power from Wyoming and it is a loser. Now if the power came from atomic energy
Can’t wait for the mid-terms to gets these fools put in their place !!
Regrettably, they will do a lot more DAMAGE before the mid-terms…
Electric heating of a building creates a lot more carbon dioxide than a fossil fuel furnace located in the building to provide the same amount of heat. A power plant converts only 45% of the energy from the fossil fuel into electricity and the least efficient furnace that you can buy converts 80 % of the fossil fuel energy into usable heat. This works out to .80 divided by .45 which is 1.78. It takes 78% more fossil fuel to create the needed electricity and then turn the electricity into heat in the building than to create the same amount of heat by using a gas furnace in the building. Any power transmission loss increases the 78% number. The same thing is true for cooking and clothes dryers.
Biden like all Liberal Democrats is driven by Politics not Science
I am yet to hear where the additional electricity is to come from to charge all of these EV’s ?
Also, it seems to me that many people think they can recharge an EV at home, which according to what I’ve read, (written by electrical engineers) isn’t possible unless there are changes to the power supply to the home and then to the car. These changes are expensive because it includes new electronic equipment to be supplied and installed.
There’s is a lot of information the people are not being told which suggests to me the Biden administration is being intentionally deceptive about the real costs of owning and operating an electric car, simply to suit a leftist political green agenda.
In other words people, this administration is lying to us.