WASHINGTON — President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency began the process Wednesday of rescinding vehicle fuel efficiency standards that Republicans have called a de facto “electric vehicle mandate,” The Post has learned.
An administration official said dozens of additional regulatory rollbacks loomed on what would be “the biggest day of deregulation in American history.”
The EPA is re-evaluating policies enacted last year by the Biden administration meant to reduce emissions for light, medium and heavy-duty vehicles.
The estimated regulatory and compliance cost of the current rules comes to $700 billion.
“The American auto industry has been hamstrung by the crushing regulatory regime of the last administration,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told The Post.
