Attorney General Steve Marshall announced a settlement in a lawsuit challenging California's electric-truck mandates. A coalition of 17 states and the Nebraska Trucking Association opposed the Advanced Clean Fleets regulations in the Eastern District of California. These rules required trucking companies to replace internal-combustion trucks with electric ones, impacting fleets operating in California regardless of their headquarters.
California has agreed not to enforce these mandates and will repeal them. "California doesn’t get to run the country," said Attorney General Marshall. "Their reckless attempt to force a costly and unworkable electric-truck mandate on businesses nationwide was unlawful and would have been economically disastrous."
The settlement requires California regulators to begin proceedings to remove the rule formally. They also acknowledged that enforcing a 2036 ban on internal-combustion truck sales is contingent upon receiving a Clean Air Act preemption waiver from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Attorneys general from Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming joined Alabama in the lawsuit. The Nebraska Trucking Association and the Arizona State Legislature were also involved.