The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will reconsider regulations on greenhouse gas emissions for Model 2027 and later vehicles.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the agency will reconsider Model Year 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicle regulations, as well as Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles.
“The American auto industry has been hamstrung by the crushing regulatory regime of the last administration. As we reconsider nearly one trillion dollars of regulatory costs, we will abide by the rule of law to protect consumer choice and the environment,” Zeldin said.
The agency said it is also reevaluating other parts of the “Clean Trucks Plan,” including the 2022 Heavy-Duty Nitrous Oxide (NOx) rule. That rule set new and more stringent standards to reduce nitrogen oxide, a major contributor to ground-level air pollution. The EPA said the legislation would result in costs that would make the products truck deliver more expensive.
Zeldin said “Protecting and Bringing Back American Auto Jobs” was one of his pillars for Powering the Great American Comeback initiative, and that reconsidering those regulations would help bring back American auto jobs and invest in domestic manufacturing to “revitalize a quintessential American industry.”
The EPA said the action was part of an initiative to advance President Donald Trump’s Day One executive orders, which it termed the “greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in the history of the United States.” The agency said the examination of the regulations would accomplish the agency’s core mission of protecting the environment while fulfilling the Trump administration’s efforts to lower costs for American’s and revitalize the auto industry and giving power back to the states to make their own decisions.