The U.S. EPA has proposed to revoke its 2009 GHG Endangerment Finding, which underpins the regulation of tailpipe (GHG) emissions from cars and trucks.
Major changes are coming to renewable fuels policy in the U.S. Here’s a summary of recent proposed regulatory and tax credit changes.
Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill related to transportation.
President Trump’s Day One Executive Order and the Implications for Transport Emissions
Policy & Regulations Anticipated changes for the transport sector under the Trump Administration As in his first term, President-elect Trump is expected to significantly deregulate the transport sector, slash government incentives for EVs, increase barriers for trade with China, emphasize domestic production of oil and gas, increase spending on domestic battery supply, reshape the EPA and revoke or deny waivers to California for setting its own emission standards. Some of these changes will be easily done, others may be protracted. There may be some unexpected moves. It is unlikely for anyone to know the true extent of changes to come and the timing. Still, here is a summary of the changes that are possible, with focus on light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles. This is based on a review of a large number of articles published in the public domain in the past few days. While these are too many to reference, we provide a few articles for further reading at the end. While this is a very high-level eye chart of the changes, this does not cover the anticipated impact on the respective sectors. Sign up below, we will continue to cover this space, more to come. Summary of (some)
