West Virginia Attorney JB McCuskey, along with a coalition of 24 states led by Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, has scored a significant victory against California’s attempt to force trucking companies to go electric.
California’s Advanced Clean Fleets regulation attempted to impose an electric-truck mandate on fleet owners, operators, and manufacturers—including trucking companies that drive one truck for as little as one day per year in California. The coalition of Attorneys General argued that the EPA and California was exceeding their statutory and regulatory authority trampling on states’ rights and disrupting the nation’s trucking and transportation industry.
Due to pressure from the coalition, the EPA withdrew its unconstitutional action.
“This is a big win for the nation’s trucking industry, the incredible men and women who power our supply chain and, for common sense. This policy would have caused catastrophic job losses, increased costs, delayed shipments and would have devastated the demand for diesel, while putting a strain on the grid providing the energy that would be needed to power these electric trucks,” Attorney General JB McCuskey said. “The inauguration of President Trump can’t come soon enough so this nonsense radical climate agenda the Biden-Harris administration shoved down hardworking Americans’ throats would be a thing of the past.”
The trucking industry in West Virginia supports 34,360 jobs—trucks transported 61% of total manufactured tonnage or 65,448 tons per day, according to the West Virginia Trucking Association. Further, more than 84% of communities in the state depend exclusively on trucks to move their goods.
“Gov. Patrick Morrisey joined the coalition of incredible Attorneys General to oppose this ridiculous rule and I am proud to join Attorney General Hilgers of Nebraska and the other AGs to continue the fight with a pending lawsuit challenging this same regulation in court,” McCuskey said.
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