One week after challenging the Biden administration’s sweeping new emissions standards for cars and light-duty vehicles, a coalition of agricultural, manufacturing and energy production concerns launched lawsuits to block impending rules on trucks and buses. The new standards apply to 'heavy-duty vocational vehicles,' which also include garbage trucks and bobtails.
’s court action claimed the EPA’s new regulation wrongly imposes an electrification mandate on the nation’s trucking sector. 'The EPA does not have authority under the Clean Air Act to restrict Americans’ access to or use of internal combustion engine technology,' general counsel Rich Moskowitz told Fox News Digital. 'The Heavy-Duty Vehicle regulation finalized this spring aims to phase-out trucks that run on American-made, American-grown diesel, biodiesel, renewable diesel and renewable natural gas Americans will pay dearly because of it.