Posted on 06/23/2025 4:07:47 AM PDT by george76
The Supreme Court sided Friday with oil companies seeking to challenge California’s electric vehicle regulations.
In a 7-2 ruling, the court allowed energy producers to continue their lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to approve California regulations that require manufacturing more electric vehicles.
“The government generally may not target a business or industry through stringent and allegedly unlawful regulation, and then evade the resulting lawsuits by claiming that the targets of its regulation should be locked out of court as unaffected bystanders,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion. “In light of this Court’s precedents and the evidence before the Court of Appeals, the fuel producers established Article III standing to challenge EPA’s approval of the California regulations.
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Kavanaugh noted that “EPA has repeatedly altered its legal position on whether the Clean Air Act authorizes California regulations targeting greenhouse-gas emissions from new motor vehicles” between Presidential administrations.
“This case involves California’s 2012 request for EPA approval of new California regulations,” he wrote. “As relevant here, those regulations generally require automakers (i) to limit average greenhouse-gas emissions across their fleets of new motor vehicles sold in the State and (ii) to manufacture a certain percentage of electric vehicles as part of their vehicle fleets.”
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals previously rejected the challenge, finding the producers lacked standing to sue.
“The Supreme Court put to rest any question about whether fuel manufacturers have a right to challenge unlawful electric vehicle mandates,” American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President and CEO Chet Thompson said in a statement.
“California’s EV mandates are unlawful and bad for our country,” he said. “Congress did not give California special authority to regulate greenhouse gases, mandate electric vehicles or ban new gas car sales—all of which the state has attempted to do through its intentional misreading of statute.”
This a momentous decision by the Supreme Court. Thanks for bringing this one to FReeper attention, george76.
Thanks
Eco nazis have been instrumental in killing California
finding the producers lacked standing to sue.
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Typical liberal court right now.
Everybody has standing to sue Trump with the most flimsiest arguments.
But no, the automakers who are being regulated to death, somehow do not have standing to defend themselves!
Good that SCOTUS corrected this, but it should never get that far, it s obvious!
And the nation. They have had dang near free reign to do whatever they want for a long, long time.
Good news and a nice ruling.
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Does this mean California has to reimburse all of the truckers and trucking companies for the massive costs having to rip out new diesel engines and replacing them with California compliant engines?
Truckers need to sue California.
Because it was 7-2, I’m wondering which lib justice joined with the conservatives. Kagan?
That answers my question. Thanks.
It was my question, too.
“SOTOMAYOR, J., and JACKSON, J., filed dissenting opinions.”
Of course, Kagan every once in a while comes over. This court is the most conservative court in the last 80 years.
Tap into YouTube videos by a lawyer : Robert Gouveia. He does regular analyses on stuff like this.
Anyhoo, this can also set a precedent to reverse a whole raft of crappola laws set in place by commie trash politicos in CaCaLand. They foist this crappola on us and then hold it out as holy writ for the other 49 states.
If one of their regs results in hurting an industry in your state you can sue your state for the harm. That is what the oil companies are doing out thisaway.
It is a shame voters nor attorney generals have standing on election cases.
Let me guess Soto & Jackson
Time for sue-and-settle to kill the mandate for good.
Thank goodness for the petrol manufacturers filing the lawsuit. Many of the automakers have been mostly onboard with mandates without putting up much a fight.
Sotomayor and Jackson have a combined IQ of 40
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