Washington, D.C. — Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) joined her Senate Republican colleagues this week in utilizing the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to counter California’s Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates.
“Far-left legislators in California should not be able to override consumer freedom and dictate emissions policies for the entire nation,” said Lummis. “In Wyoming, we know that these EV mandates are not only costly, but also unrealistic. We must ensure that the U.S. Congress is setting our EV and emissions policies, not the California legislature.”
Background on CRA:
- Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE) introduced a CRA to cancel the Biden-era California waiver allowing the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) regulation which requires manufacturers of trucks, from class 2b to class 8, meet unrealistic zero-emission regulations by 2025. Under the regulation, manufacturers would have to sell an increasingly larger percentage of zero-emission vehicles between 2024 to 2035. The 2025 benchmarks include 55% for class 2b-3 sales (trucks), 75% for class 4-8 straight truck sales(heavy-duty trucks, construction vehicles, delivery vehicles, etc), and 40% for tractor trailer sales. Additionally, the ACT requires fleet owners with more than 50 vehicles to submit a one-time report on their existing operations.
Sen. Lummis has been a longtime leader in fighting against the Biden administration’s unrealistic EV agenda
- In October 2023, Lummis cosponsored the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act to counter the Biden administration’s radical environmental agenda and executive overreach by preventing the implementation of a proposed rule and other regulations that seek to limit consumer vehicle choice.
- In November 2023, she sent a letter to Senate and House leadership urging them to defund the Biden administration’s EV mandate.
- In January 2024, she sent a letter with 121 members of Congress to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration calling for them to withdrawal the Biden Administration’s proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for passenger cars and light-duty trucks.