The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) has filed two lawsuits in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new rules on greenhouse gas emissions from trucks and cars. The regulations require that at least 30% of trucks and 70% of cars be all-electric by 2032, effectively mandating widespread electrification within eight years, according to the lawsuit.

“EPA does not have the legal authority to require the wholesale electrification of trucks and cars. The rules are not only inconsistent with the Clean Air Act—they are unconstitutional,” stated Ted Hadzi-Antich, a Senior Attorney with TPPF’s Center for the American Future. “In promulgating the illegal rules, EPA ignores the obvious fact that there is woefully insufficient infrastructure in the nation to support the break-neck pace set by EPA for switching from fossil fuels to electricity. In the process, EPA restricts the freedom of ordinary Americans to choose their preferred modes of transportation. Congress never gave EPA that kind of expansive authority over individual liberty.”

TPPF represents both the Western States Trucking Association and the Construction Industry Air Quality Coalition, trade associations whose members are directly affected by these new regulations.

Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit free-market research institute based in Austin focused on promoting liberty, opportunity, and personal responsibility. The Center for the American Future defends constitutional principles through legal challenges against government overreach at various court levels on behalf of individuals whose rights are threatened by governmental actions.