EPA Rings the Alarm on California’s Latest Questionable Attempt to Impose EV Mandates  

September 30, 2025 

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EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov)

WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted official comments to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on its proposed “emergency” amendment and adoption of vehicle emissions regulations, which simply is California’s latest feeble attempt to revive its electric vehicle mandates that were struck down by bipartisan acts of Congress.

The Clean Air Act specifically vests EPA with the exclusive authority to promulgate emission standards for new motor vehicles and engines and broadly preempts any State from adopting or attempting to enforce its own standards.

“CARB’s proposal appears to be nothing more than scare tactics to coerce car companies into limiting consumer choice and selling unaffordable and impractical electric vehicles that Americans do not want to buy,” said Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation Aaron Szabo. “California appears dead set on wasting hard-earned taxpayer dollars and forcing their rejected standards on the rest of the country.”

To read EPA’s comments in full, click here.