Safeguarding America’s Trucking Industry From Burdensome Rules

In 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule under the Clean Air Act, allowing the state to impose stricter emissions standards for medium and heavy-duty trucks than federal requirements.

This Biden-era rule would force truck makers to sell zero-emission trucks, imposing more burdensome regulations, increasing vehicle prices for Americans, raising costs and over complicating manufacturing for automakers, and threatening the American supply chain.

Truckers are the lifeblood of America. If not reversed, the Biden Advanced Clean Trucks rule would demand truck makers implement the expensive transition to electric trucks and disproportionately harm truckers and hardworking American families across the nation. The rule aims for all new trucks to be zero emission by 2035.

Americans are sick and tired of burdensome regulations imposed by unelected bureaucrats to further their radical “Green New Deal” agenda driving up costs and hurting manufacturers. House Republicans are bringing legislation to repeal the waiver approving the Advanced Clean Trucks rule and lower vehicle costs for consumers and safeguard the American trucking industry.

H.J. Res. 87, introduced by Rep. John James, overturns the Biden Administration’s approval of California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule forcing truck makers to sell zero-emission trucks and raising vehicle prices for consumers. 

House Republicans won’t stop working to repeal burdensome Biden-era rules and waivers that hurt American consumers, raise prices, and fuel inflation as we implement President Trump’s America First agenda.
Overturning Unworkable Nitrogen Oxide Engine Emissions Standards

Last year, the Biden-Harris Administration Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided to grant a waiver of preemption allowing California to impose their Omnibus Low NOx (nitrogen oxide) regulations on on-road heavy-duty vehicles and engines. The regulations include stringent and onerous requirements for revised heavy-duty emission standards. 

These new standards would require significant investments in new technologies and infrastructure, resulting in a high cost of compliance that burdens manufacturers as well as consumers as the cost of the transition to these standards is passed down. Additionally, as these California “clean car” policies mandate stricter emission standards, including phasing out the sale of gas-powered vehicles, they limit the availability of vehicles that don't meet these unreasonable standards – reducing options available to consumers. 

If left unchanged, this harmful decision by the Biden EPA would threaten affordable, reliable transportation, increase manufacturing complexities, and drive up costs for hardworking taxpayers and American businesses.

We cannot allow radical leftist bureaucrats to impose unworkable Green New Deal standards that harm everyday Americans and American manufacturing and crush our transportation industry. House Republicans are bringing forward legislation to put an end to this Biden-era rule creating burdensome, unrealistic standards for heavy-duty on-road engines.

Rep. Jay Obernolte’s legislation, H.J. Res. 89, disapproves the Biden-Harris EPA’s rule granting California the ability to implement its most recent nitrogen oxide engine emission standards, imposing onerous and impractical requirements for heavy-duty on-road engines, raising costs for consumers, and threatening reliable transportation and consumer choice.

House Republicans will always fight to protect American jobs, consumers, transportation, and manufacturing from overbearing and harmful regulations that endanger livelihoods and take away from consumer choice.