Ugh.

Over the weekend, news broke that the Biden Administration may sabotage one of its own tools for getting Big Auto to speed up our nation’s transition to electric vehicles.

This is the situation:

• Gasoline-powered cars and trucks are America’s largest single source of greenhouse emissions.

• So switching to electric vehicles is critical to stopping catastrophic climate disruption.

• Of course, the auto industry is *still* fighting this essential innovation.

• Even though a transition to electric vehicles would be better for consumers, workers, and the planet we all live on.

• And now the Biden Administration is talking about rolling back new vehicle emissions standards.

• But requiring cars and trucks to be less polluting is key to getting Big Auto to market electric vehicles at the scale we need to avoid a climate meltdown.

Here at Public Citizen, we know something about taking on Big Auto. Today, nobody would buy — and no company would try to sell — a new car without airbags. That’s us. We had to battle Detroit for decades over that one, but we didn’t stop until we won.

The difference now is that the very habitability of our planet is at stake, and we don’t have decades.

To President Joe Biden:

A decision to roll back the scale of a transition to electric vehicles would be a monumental failure of your administration and of industry to take action toward a fossil-free future. With climate change fast accelerating, this is no time to capitulate to corporate demands. There is still time for your administration to avoid this epic error and recommit to the science-backed actions you started.

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For progress,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
 
 
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