Trump revokes Biden order that had set a goal of 50% electric cars by 2030 | Trump’s administration

Donald Trump took aim federal support for sales of electric vehicles (EVs) on Monday, amid a flurry of promised orders on his first day back in the White House.

“The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity,” Trump said during a ceremony at Capitol One Arena, where he signed a series of executive orders before a roaring crowd.

One of those orders revokes 78 Biden-era actsincluding a 2021 executive order that aims to make half of all new cars sold by 2030 electric.

That goal was not binding. It also won support from top car manufacturers.

“These rollbacks of clean cars will burden Americans with a Trumpfecta of higher prices, more pollution and weaker competitiveness,” said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Transportation Campaign at the environmental non-profit Center for Biological Diversity. “Our children and everyone with lungs will pay the price for these politically motivated withdrawals of protections for our air and climate.”

Trump’s order is part of a promised push to roll back environmental protections put in place by Biden and to support US manufacturers of gas-powered cars. He has also promised to roll back the auto pollution standards that were finalized by the Biden administration last spring — a rule that Trump calls an “EV mandate” even though it did not directly require the production of electric vehicles.

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