FILE - An electric vehicle charges at an EVgo fast charging station in Detroit on Nov. 16, 2022. The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits that would require as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032 — a nearly tenfold increase over current EV sales, according to an announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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EPA may slow EV shift under cars rule: reports
The Biden administration is expected to publish a clean cars rule that would not require as rapid a shift to electric vehicles (EV) as it initially proposed, The New York Times reported this weekend.
Other news outlets, including The Washington Post and CNN, reported that the administration was only considering such a change.
Last year, the EPA proposed a rule under which it projected two-thirds of new U.S. passenger car sales would be electric in 2032. The rule would ratchet up EV sales over time, with just 36 percent of sales expected to be electric in 2027 but 60 percent being electric in 2030.
But, under the reported changes, EV sales would not have to undergo a significant increase until after 2030.
According to the administration’s regulatory agenda, the rule is expected to be finalized next month, though this schedule is not always followed.
It comes during an election year, in which President Biden may have to strike a balance between
courting autoworkers and climate-minded voters.
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policies impacting everything from oil and gas to new supply chains.
California regulators have released official plans for phasing out fracking in the Golden State — nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared his intentions to do so.
Has the boom in American natural gas exports come at the expense of American households?
That question has become a major point of contention in the heated debate over the Biden administration’s decision to halt permitting for new gas export terminals.
The Biden administration announced a preliminary agreement Monday to provide $1.5 billion in funding through the CHIPS and Science Act to a New York-based company in an effort to bolster domestic production of semiconductor chips.
Republican and Democratic senators who have worked for years with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are fuming over his decision to oppose a $95 billion defense and foreign aid package. Read more
Comedian and “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver is urging Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign, offering him $1 million per year to do so. Read more
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