WASHINGTON, D.C.—Progress Vitality, the nation’s largest biofuel commerce affiliation, filed an amicus temporary in a consolidated set of courtroom challenges to the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration’s (NHTSA’s) Company Common Gas Economic system (CAFE) Requirements for Passenger Automobiles and Gentle Vehicles for Mannequin Years 2027-2032, which is being litigated within the U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
In its temporary, Progress Vitality argues that the CAFE requirements violate the Vitality Coverage and Conservation Act (EPCA), particularly the EPCA’s prohibition on utilizing electrical automobiles (EVs) as a “baseline” to set fuel-economy requirements. Progress additionally notes that the requirements functionally function an EV mandate and unlawfully fail to take the advantages of biofuels into consideration. NHTSA’s “one-track deal with EVs results in guidelines which can be arbitrary, inconsistent with legislation,” together with the Renewable Gas Commonplace (RFS), “and miss necessary advantages of different applied sciences whereas additionally failing to reduce prices,” Progress writes within the temporary.
“NHTSA has frequently did not correctly think about the necessary position that biofuels like bioethanol play in advancing the gas economic system targets of EPCA and the vitality safety, environmental, and rural financial improvement targets of the RFS,” stated Progress Vitality’s CEO Emily Skor. “The CAFE requirements ought to acknowledge and embrace the advantages of biofuels, a uniquely-American useful resource that may assist NHTSA accomplish its targets with out pushing one car know-how over all others.”
Learn Progress Vitality’s temporary right here.
