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Oil giants vs. Biden, lawsuit to block government measures to reduce pollution

2024-06-15 11:27:30Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The largest oil trading group in the United States is declaring "war" on the Biden administration just five months before the crucial US presidential election, taking action against electrification. The American Petroleum Institute - API, which owns giants such as ExxonMobil and Chevron, has filed a lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency -EPA in an attempt to block government action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars. and light trucks and to encourage the production of electric vehicles.

The agency issued new emissions rules in March, aimed at pressuring the nation's automakers to produce and sell more electric vehicles to meet the new standards. Under the rule, the administration predicts that up to 56% of all car sales should be electric by 2030 to 2032.

The API Institute claims the federal agency overstepped its authority in Congress with a regulation that would eliminate most new gas cars, as well as traditional hybrids, from the U.S. market in less than a decade.

In April, Republican attorneys general from 25 states sued the EPA to block the same rules. The new regulatory framework for environmental protection is one of the toughest that has been implemented under Democratic President Joe Biden, who has the fight against climate change as the main pillar of his mandate.

His rules have also complicated his relationship with a key ally, the United Auto Workers, who have been slow to embrace the shift to electric vehicles. Amid a backlash from the auto industry, the Biden administration lowered its target for electric vehicles, but the reduction did little to assure the oil industry, which needs gas-powered cars to survive.

For both Biden and his Republican rival, Donald Trump, the road to the White House passes through the industrial states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where workers fear the shift to electric vehicles threatens their jobs. Trump, in fact, has repeatedly denounced electric vehicles while promising to withdraw tough new environmental regulations.


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