Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador has announced that California has agreed to repeal its electric-truck mandates that reach well beyond California’s borders.
Nebraska led a coalition of 17 states and the Nebraska Trucking Association in challenging a host of California regulations called Advanced Clean Fleets in the Eastern District of California.
According to a news release from the Attorney General’s Office, among other things, Advanced Clean Fleets would have required certain trucking companies to retire internal-combustion trucks and transition to more expensive and less efficient electric trucks. The rule targeted any fleet that operated in California regardless of where the fleet is headquartered. Given California’s large population and access to international ports, the rule would have had nationwide effects on the supply chain. In the settlement announced this week, however, California has agreed not to enforce the rule and to outright repeal it.
As part of the settlement, California regulators pledged to commence rulemaking proceedings to formally scrub the rule from the books. California regulators also conceded that they cannot enforce California’s 2036 ban on the sale of internal-combustion trucks unless and until the ban receives a Clean Air Act preemption waiver from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Previously, Attorney General Labrador joined a 24-state coalition led by Nebraska in successfully opposing California’s request for a waiver.
