House passes bill blocking Biden admin attempt to require two-thirds of new cars to be electric within years

The Biden administration's effort to acceptable caller emissions standards connected electrical vehicles was blocked by a bipartisan group of lawmakers connected Friday. 

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a last regularisation successful March nether the Clean Air Act to acceptable new emissions standards that would necessitate up to two-thirds of caller cars sold to beryllium electrical vehicles by 2032.

The caller standards would impact "light-duty conveyance manufacturers, autarkic commercialized importers, alternate substance converters, and manufacturers and converters of medium-duty vehicles," according to the EPA's last rule.

The House passed the Congressional Review Act (CRA) solution connected Friday, introduced by Rep. John James, R-Mich., to artifact the "out-of-touch regulation" from being enacted.

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A Tesla Model 3 charges astatine a ChargePoint electrical conveyance charging presumption successful Rhinebeck, New York, connected Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The amendment was passed with bipartisan support, with 8 Democrats voting for the bill.

Democrats who opposed the measure argued that the EPA's regularisation was "very important" successful reducing emissions, but James, speaking connected the House level up of the vote, called the Biden administration's caller standards "catastrophic."

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"The Biden-Harris Administration’s EPA tailpipe emanation regularisation is different out-of-touch regularisation that volition crater the Michigan car manufacture and decimate our middle-class and astir vulnerable," James said successful a property merchandise aft the measure passed. "This is simply a de-facto electrical conveyance mandate that volition enactment each 77,580 manufacturing jobs successful MI-10 astatine large hazard of extinction. I americium grateful that the House passed this measurement to forestall the Biden-Harris administration’s regularisation from ravaging the livelihoods of thousands successful Michigan and crossed the country."

Rep. John James (R-MI) speaks alongside erstwhile contention car operator Mario Andretti and Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) during a quality league connected May 1, 2024 successful Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker)

"Vice President Harris made it wide from the commencement that 1 of her apical priorities is mandating electrical vehicles and getting escaped of combustion engines, and similar she said, her values haven’t changed. The Biden-Harris EPA continues to spot utmost standards connected pollutants and greenhouse gasses for vehicles successful an effort to marque Americans to power to EVs, taking distant user choice, forcing unaffordable options connected American families and workers, and crushing jobs," Majority Leader Steve Scalise said successful a property merchandise pursuing the vote.

President Biden addresses the Baltimore span illness successful the Roosevelt Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected March 26, 2024. (PEedro Ugarte)

The bill's passing comes conscionable 1 time aft the American Energy Alliance and implicit 2 twelve vigor groups sent a missive to members of Congress urging them to walk the CRA.

"This regularisation connected tailpipe emissions standards is simply a monolithic overreach, utilizing a caller exertion of EPA centrifugal conveyance authorities successful an effort to unit a modulation successful the centrifugal vehicles marketplace to products that align with the ideological preferences of the Biden administration," the groups wrote successful a missive to lawmakers connected Thursday.

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The bipartisan authorities is being mirrored successful the Senate by Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., who introduced the chamber's CRA mentation successful May.