CA agrees to repeal trucking emissions regulations following court challenge

First on Fox: California agreed to drop its Clean advanced fleet (ACF) Mandates dictating strict emission standards for large platforms, following a one-year legal battle with an anti-regulation group whose legal arm is led by former prosecutor General William Barr.

The California Attorney General, Rob Bonta and California Air Resources Board (CARB), Steven Cliff agreed on Friday to withdraw their mandates from the ACF, leading the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce (Amfree) to abandon his judicial dispute.

In a document signed by the federal judge appointed by Obama, Troy Nunley, and obtained by Fox News Digital, Cliff and Bonta agreed to present a proposal for repeal for the ACF requirements during a public hearing no later than October 31. They also agreed not to apply retroactively.

While a calendar in the file of the court cited California had requested an environmental exemption from the Biden administration in 2023, Amfree initially continued on the ground that Sacramento’s regulations violated the Clean Air Act because a derogation has never been obtained.

Dozens of the United States make EPA lobbying to refuse the renunciation of California, forcing the Strucks outside the State to comply with the green mandate

The regulations have been in force since 2024, ordering trucking companies to quickly pass diesel fleets to zero emission vehicles.

At the time, Barr described the movement as “threat to our free American business” and suggested that the restrictions would best lead to “negligible” environmental advantages while provoking negative economic repercussions.

“This decision is the last nail in the coffin of California’s crazy attempt to Eliminate the traditional trucking sector, and yet another example of Gavin Newsom’s full failure in California, “said Amfree CEO, Gentry Collins.

“Even after the American public voted in a resounding way to direct the country in a new direction last November, liberal states like California are hell on the implementation of a green agenda that consumers do not want and that technology cannot support,” said Collins, a former Iowa prosecutor.

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“Amfree will remain vigilant, holding the blue states to account for their patiently crushed crusade which defies common sense and flies in the face of the choice and the freedom of consumers, and ensuring that politicians have completely failed as Gavin Newsom He is eager to flee their liberal files of disastrous policies that have occurred on their watch. “”

The group is positioned as a freer alternative to the Pro-Enterprise American Chamber of Commerce.

A major regional truck Outfit celebrated the news, indicating to Fox News Digital that companies across the country had a common interest in seeing California mandates be reversed.

“Here in Alabama and also through America, we defend ourselves every day so that our members defend free enterprise and contradict the failed states policies Like California“Said the CEO of Alabama Trucking Association, Mark Colson.

“We are proud to unite with Amfree and our allies in the field in California to achieve shared objectives and make our economy roar.”

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The Nixing of the Regs is only the last of several sudden reversals of green mandates, because the congress has canceled at least three derogations from the EPA of the Biden era which were officially granted to California to allow it to self -regulate its own emission standards.

Senator Shelley Moore Capito, RW.VA., president of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, praised the mandate of California white cars as a victory to “protect American workers and consumers against radical and drastic policy”.

“The impact of California’s derogation would have been felt across the country, harming several sectors of our economy and costs hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process,” said Moore Capito.

The regulations on Grandes-Rig have forced operators of several types of fleets to start the transition to zero-emission tractors.

Fox News Digital contacted Newsom, Bonta and Carb to comment.