by Paris Apodaca The Daily Caller The Trump administration finalized new fuel economy standards Monday that it says end a Biden-era push to steer automakers toward electric vehicles. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the rule, which his department projects will cut the average price of a new vehicle by $1,300 and save Americans $138 billion [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on The Daily Caller Kudos to President Donald Trump for announcing a rollback of the Biden administration’s fuel economy standards. But in addition to selling Trump watches and meme coins, he may just have to start Trump Motors to teach the car [...]
https://youtu.be/Ap497jJB2C4 On December 5, 2025, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder appeared on OANN's Real America With Dan Ball to discuss the President's recent moves to do away with the Biden CAFE standards.
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the Washington Times The original rationale for fuel efficiency standards, originally triggered by the 1970s energy crisis and fears of “peak oil," was put to rest about 10 years ago by the advent of fracking. Neither shortages nor dependence on foreign [...]
Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), joined with nearly fifty other representatives from free-market organizations in a letter to President Trump expressing support for "the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule. This joint Department of Transportation (DOT) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rulemaking will reform the federal fuel mandates known as the [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on Junkscience.com So the Trump administration finally finished rolling back the pointlessly expensive and impossible-to-achieve 2012 Obama administration fuel economy standards. Great. But did EPA staff sabotage the rulemaking to favor certain legal challenge by environmentalists? You betcha. The pending Federal Register notice for [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Signal I’m old enough to remember when businesses fought overregulation because it was bad for their bottom lines. That has changed. Now, overregulation is a profit center. There is no better example of this than the ongoing effort to stop the Trump administration from rolling [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe Gov. Newsom: ‘The President could learn from California’ President Donald Trump is expected to revoke a rule that allowed California to set its own tougher vehicle emissions standards than those required by the federal government. California has relied on [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 11, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: JORDAN McGILLIS (AEA) 202.621-2947 Nationwide Free Market Coalition to President Trump: Hold Firm on CAFE Reform WASHINGTON — A coalition of 30 organizations, led by the American Energy Alliance, sent a letter to President Trump today expressing its unified support for his administration's effort to reform the federal [...]
By Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing on cnsnews.com The Trump administration has proposed to freeze Obama-era fuel economy standards at 2020 levels to save lives and money. Opponents want to bring the proposed Safe Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule proposal to a screeching halt by claiming that it will cause more deaths than [...]
