SC Attorney General files brief to stop Biden-Harris administration’s electric-truck mandate

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– Attorney General Alan Wilson filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to stop the Biden-Harris administration from imposing an electric-vehicle mandate on truck manufacturers, says the AG’s office.

A coalition of 24 states teamed up in Nebraska v. EPA to challenge the new rule.

In April, the federal Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA) published a rule imposing stringent tailpipe emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles that effectively force manufacturers to produce more electric trucks and fewer internal combustion trucks.

The attorneys general argued that EPA’s electric-truck mandate raises a “major question” that Congress has not clearly authorized EPA to decide, according to a press release.

“This is yet another overreach by the Biden-Harris administration trying to do something they don’t have the authority to do, but more importantly, it will raise the price on all of us for almost everything that gets shipped by truck,” Attorney General Wilson says.

The brief points out that just 0.10 percent of all heavy-duty trucks sold today are powered by a battery, but that EPA’s rule would increase that number to 45 percent in less than a decade.

Also, the brief argues that EPA has never before forced manufacturers to produce heavy-duty electric vehicles and that allowing the electric-truck mandate to stand would short-circuit the ongoing policy debate that should be left to Congress and the States.

In addition to SC Attorney General Wilson, attorneys general from the following states joined the brief against the Biden Administration: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

To read the brief click here.