On September 19, 2024, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) joined nearly 30 other free-market-oriented organizations in an American Energy Association (AEA)-led effort to send a letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives supporting a resolution disapproving the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) tailpipe emissions rule. As the letter notes:
This rule on tailpipe emissions standards is a massive overreach, using a novel application of EPA motor vehicle authorities in an attempt to force a transition in the motor vehicles market to products that align with the ideological preferences of the Biden administration. This rule is a de facto electric vehicle mandate. Congress has not given EPA the authority to require the purchase or production of certain types of motor vehicles or outlaw the purchase or production of other types of vehicles. Congress has not given EPA the authority to require the purchase or production of electric vehicles. EPA’s attempt to infer such power is contrary to longstanding administrative practice and contrary to recent Supreme Court precedent.
