Industry Groups Sue Biden Admin to Block Emissions Rule

The groups are challenging EPA’s light- and medium-duty vehicle emissions standards that they say will eliminate most new gas cars in less than 10 years.

Vehicles travel along Interstate 405 during a gap in a rainstorm in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

A coalition of oil and gas trade groups has sued the Biden administration, challenging new emissions standards that they argue will effectively ban most new gas cars and traditional hybrids from the U.S. market in less than a decade.

In one of several legal filings brought by more than 30 different industry bodies, the American Petroleum Institute (API)—the country’s largest oil trade group—alleges that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overstepped its statutory authority in adopting the rules on emissions for light- and medium-duty vehicles, restrictions the complaint describes as “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and not in accordance with law.”