The regulation would tackle the nation’s biggest source of planet-warming pollution and accelerate the transition to electric vehicles.
The Environmental Protection Agency has invited environmental and public health groups to an event Wednesday with Administrator Michael Regan to announce the regulation, according to three people with knowledge of the agency’s timing, who were granted anonymity to discuss the still-unpublicized action.
The rule would require carmakers to cut their average emissions of carbon dioxide 52 percent between 2027 and 2032. EPA projects that the standard would push the car industry to ensure that electric cars and light trucks make up about 67 percent of new vehicles by model year 2032.insulating them from rollbacks
E&E News and other outlets reported last month that EPA’s final passenger car rule would offer automakers more time to scale up the share of their fleet that runs on batteries compared with last year’s proposed rule. The change came after intense lobbying from U.S. car manufacturers and as President Joe Biden looks to shore up support from autoworkers in states like Michigan ahead of this year’s presidential election.