NACS is sending a letter to the House of Representatives supporting H.J. Res. 136, which would block the EPA’s regulation of tailpipe emissions for light- and medium-duty vehicles for model years 2027 and later. In the letter, NACS is urging the House to pass the bill.

As stated in the letter, NACS shares the objective of lowering transportation emissions—however, the EPA’s tailpipe emissions regulation takes the wrong approach to that goal. It mandates a single technology (EVs) at the expense of other technologies that could reduce emissions.

“The fastest, most efficient way to lower carbon emissions remains through technology neutral, market-oriented, consumer-focused policies that encourage all fueling technologies to improve their respective emissions. This rule does not do that. Instead, it functions as an effective mandate for a single technology that at this point has not proven itself to be more viable than other compelling solutions,” NACS wrote in the letter.

Rather than the EPA tailpipe rule, NACS urged Congress and the Administration to pursue policies that create a new, competitive marketplace for fast, publicly accessible EV charging stations.

H.J. Res. 136 would tell EPA to go back to the drawing board to come up with regulations that recognize and work with the market and consumer choices.

Earlier this year, a coalition of energy and fuel producers, energy marketers and retailers, and consumer groups, including NACS, filed a petition with the D.C. Circuit Court to sue the EPA over its tailpipe emission regulation.

For more on EPA’s tailpipe regulations as they stand now, check out the article “EPA Virtually Mandates Electric Vehicles” in the Summer 2024 issue of Fuels Market News.