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Dive Brief:
- The federal government will overturn a 2009 endangerment finding this week, “the largest deregulatory action in American history,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press conference this week.
- The scientific finding has served as the basis for greenhouse gas emissions regulations such as the Phase 3 GHG heavy-duty regulation pertaining to model year 2027 trucks and beyond.
- President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin are slated to take part in a Thursday event to mark the rescinding of the Obama-era measure.
Dive Insight:
The federal government moved forward with efforts to end the 2009 endangerment finding last year, aiming to reduce trucking costs for consumers.
The claw back of the 2009 measure “would not, by itself, repeal” later-issued regulations, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said in a report last year.
The endangerment finding move will still be subject to judicial review involving a reviewing court assessing the framework shift, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Leavitt said the change will save Americans $1.3 trillion, mainly from reduced costs for new vehicles amounting to over $2,400 per light-duty vehicle, improve the economy and help affordability for consumers and businesses.
