Attorney General Marshall and Coalition Seek Win in Ninth Circuit to End California’s Illegal Electric Car and Truck Mandate
(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a coalition of 26 states in support of ending California’s illegal war on gas-powered cars and trucks. The States’ brief filed in the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals explains the authority of Congress and President Trump to revoke waivers granted to California by the Biden Administration’s EPA. The waivers authorized by Biden allowed California’s radical net-zero emissions to dictate what vehicles Americans purchase and to regulate trucking out of existence.
The radical green agenda of leftists like California Governor Gavin Newsom and the Biden Administration has hiked prices for businesses and consumers across the country. Costs for electric trucks already start around $100,000 and can reach the high six figures. Only eight other states have adopted California’s truck ban, so the special California carve-out lets one radical state overrule car and truck purchases in more than 80% of States.
California’s truck ban would not just increase costs. It would devastate the demand for liquid fuels, such as biodiesel, cutting trucking jobs across the nation.
“California and Gavin Newsom do not get to decide what cars and trucks Alabamians drive. This radical mandate is nothing more than an attempt to force the entire country into California’s failed green agenda, destroying jobs, driving up costs, and stripping away choice. Alabama will never bow to California elites or let Gavin Newsom regulate our economy from Sacramento,” stated Attorney General Marshall. “If Newsom spent half as much time fixing his broken state as he does bullying others and chasing headlines on podcasts, California might not have so many families and businesses fleeing it every single day.”
Alabama joined the Iowa-led brief along with Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Read the full briefs here and here.
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