Automakers Defend EPA’s Vehicle GHG Rule In Face Of Legal Challenge

March 22, 2023
Auto manufacturers are defending EPA’s vehicle greenhouse gas standards from GOP and fuel industry claims that they violate the major questions doctrine, arguing the rules are a routine application of agency authority even though the standards will effectively require higher levels of electric vehicle (EV) adoption. “Rather than being a novel power grab the Final Rule hews closely to the model EPA has used for decades,” the Alliance for Automotive Innovation says in a March 21 brief in litigation over...


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