The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will propose rolling back Biden-era fuel economy standards for vehicles soon, Deputy Transportation Secretary Steven Bradbury said Thursday.
A “complete reset” of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy program will be out “in a matter of weeks,” Bradbury said at a Federalist Society event.
The CAFE program was “really abused and misused by the previous administration to try to force an artificial acceleration in the transition to electric vehicles — a complete, I think, betrayal of, really what Congress intended in the program,” Bradbury said.
The proposal (Reg. 2127-AM76) will have “something on the order of $100 billion in cost savings for the U.S. economy,” Bradbury added. It has been under review at the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs since early September.