Praises common sense efforts to return EPA’s mission to preserving the environment and ensuring that Americans can buy affordable cars and trucks that meet their needs and power the American economy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Gentry Collins, CEO of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce (AmFree Chamber) issued the following statement praising the Trump Administration’s repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding:
“This bold decision by the Trump Administration removes the foundation for the failed experiment of mandating electric vehicles and restores common-sense limits on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gases only where Congress clearly gave the agency that task. The rule published dismantles burdensome electrification mandates that have stifled innovation, raised costs for ordinary Americans and businesses, and hollowed out our industrial base by making us dependent on China. We applaud the Trump Administration for its decisive leadership, and we intend to aggressively combat any ensuing legal challenge to this historic rulemaking.”
AmFree Chamber’s work on energy issues related to the endangerment finding repeal includes:
- Litigating against the Biden EPA rules that the endangerment repeal puts in the regulatory dustbin.
- Defeating the Biden administration’s hidden subsidy for EVs that multiplied their efficiency by 666% for purposes of calculating CAFE compliance.
- Challenging California’s EV sales mandates by intervening in a recent lawsuit against Governor Newsom’s efforts to reinstate them following congressional repeals via the Congressional Review Act.
- Filing multiple pending lawsuits targeting EPA approvals of California’s EV mandates and waivers.
- Challenging California’s Clean Truck Partnership, which created an illegal “cartel” with truck manufacturers to mandate the electrification of heavy-duty trucks by 2036.
- Successfully opposing California’s Advanced Clean Fleets regulation that would have imposed EV purchase mandates on the trucking industry.
- Challenging the Biden DOT’s CAFE standards that function as a de facto EV mandate and that the agency has proposed repealing, drawing on the legal arguments AmFree advanced in that litigation and in comments.
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About AmFree Chamber
The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce (AmFree Chamber) is a trade organization representing American businesses of all sizes. It is dedicated to advancing the principles of free enterprise, free markets, limited government, and American leadership globally. AmFree Chamber is chaired by the Honorable Terry E. Branstad, who previously served as Ambassador to China and was the longest serving Governor in American history.
AmFree Chamber has members representing dozens of industries and from across the United States. Since its founding in 2022, AmFree Chamber has aggressively represented its members’ interests through legislative outreach, regulatory comments, and judicial briefing.