A group started by a former Republican governor of Iowa is suing the Biden administration for approving California’s plan to phase out gas-powered cars and trucks — a move that President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to reverse.
The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce filed a pair of lawsuits earlier this week in the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals, targeting EPA’s December decision to grant a waiver that allows California to carry out the country’s most ambitious electric vehicle mandate.
EPA last month approved California’s plan, which would effectively ban the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035. Under the state’s Advanced Clean Cars II rule, automakers in California will have to sell increasing numbers of electric vehicles, fuel-cell vehicles or plug-in hybrids each year until 2035.
The 9th Circuit petitions do not detail the chamber’s arguments against the EPA approval, but asks the court to scrap the agency’s waiver and declare the action unlawful.
