On Wednesday afternoon, Trump announced his intention to roll back former President Biden’s changes to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in a move that oil industry groups like the American Petroleum Institute have been lobbying for months.

“Today, we’re taking one more step to kill the ‘Green New Scam,'” Trump said in a press briefing on Wednesday afternoon. “We’re officially terminating Joe Biden’s ridiculously burdensome, horrible actually, CAFE standards that impose expensive restrictions, and all sorts of problems to automakers.”

Last year, Biden tightened some of the requirements in the CAFE standards that have determined the average fuel economy targets for new vehicles for roughly 50 years, making it so that automakers had to achieve an average of roughly 50 m

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