All the American turmoil over emissions regulations
USA split in half on the new emission rules that affect the car market: the Attorneys General of 25 states have appealed against the EPA, arguing that the limits harm Americans. Will this move be all fuel in Trump's engine in the race for the White House?
Compared to what is happening in the States, the process that led to the approval of the recent package of green regulations launched by the EU Council (ranging from industrial emissions to the Euro7 up to the infamous rules on the energy efficiency of homes), although it has split in two the politics of the Old Continent is comparable to a health walk.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE USA
In the USA, in fact, as many as 25 Republican attorneys general from as many states, therefore exactly half, have sued the US environmental protection agency with the aim of blocking the new regulation which, as is known, has the aim of making it uneconomical the creation of cars with internal combustion engines aims to encourage the production of electric vehicles.
The lawsuit, brought by Kentucky and West Virginia, is also supported by Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.
WHAT THE EMISSIONS REGULATIONS SAY
In April 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency had already forwarded a text that was immediately subjected to criticism. For this reason, in mid-March the Environmental Protection Agency updated the roadmap towards electrification by smoothing several steps.
But the new intervention does not seem to have been enough, as it provides for a slower pace of emissions reduction between 2027 and 2030 (the objective is to cut 85 grams of CO2 per mile by 2032, i.e. 50% less compared to the standards to 2026 and no longer the 56% indicated in the initial proposal) but also contemplates an acceleration in the following two years which should lead to electric vehicles representing between 30% and 56% of total sales in 2032 so as not to deviate too much from that ambitious 67% originally predicted.
EMISSIONS REGULATION CREATES URBAL AMONG AMERICANS
Emissions regulations, which have gradually become more stringent since the Obama era, are not liked by Americans: they are considered indigestible by industrialists, as well as by the middle class, who have greater difficulty in changing cars.
This is why the battle against more stringent rules has characterized much of the Trump administration. The former president, in April 2020, taking advantage of the Coronavirus crisis that was starting to paralyze the global industry, had spoken of "a lot of unnecessary and expensive sanctions for car buyers" and had canceled with a blow removes the constraints of the New Green Deal Standard by increasing emissions limits until 2026.
It goes without saying that the new tensions on emissions risk being galloped once again by the tycoon, who is rising in American approval. The current occupant of the White House, Joe Biden , knows this well and has chosen to maintain a more balanced and less intransigent attitude towards the auto industry as the electoral date approaches.
THE LEGAL BATTLE IS JUST BEGINNING
In short, a lot will be played out on television and on the electoral campaign stages. Likewise in the courtrooms, where prosecutors will argue that the EPA exceeded the limits of its legal authority by failing to comply with the Clean Air Act.
According to Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, who has led the national opposition to the new federal rules, they would damage the American economy, threaten jobs, raise prices and endanger the economy. of the United States power grid.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/tutti-i-subbugli-americani-sulla-normativa-sulle-emissioni/ on Thu, 25 Apr 2024 06:53:11 +0000.