Washington, DC – ConservAmerica General Counsel Brent Fewell released the following statement today in regard to cases being heard in the D.C. Circuit this week aimed at auto emissions:
“This week, the D.C. Circuit is hearing oral arguments in three important cases dealing with this Administration’s unlawful and erroneous interpretation of existing law to advance mandates for electric vehicles.
A genuinely free market is the surest way to encourage innovation. The rapid development of not one but two viable vaccines to the coronavirus is the latest example of the value of competition with which we are all familiar.
WASHINGTON, DC – A new ConservAmerica review of existing scientific research of the various options available for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector urges policymakers to take into account the full emissions lifecycle of those technologies before setting policy in a rapidly developing market.
The report, Slow Down: The Case for Technology Neutral Transportation Policy, looks at a cross-section of credible studies, including ones from MIT and the International Energy Agency, on the environmental impacts of different low-carbon vehicle technologies over their entire lifecycle a perspective often overlooked by policymakers. While each study is unique, they collectively demonstrate the importance of taking a technology-neutral approach in setting transportation policies to obtain the most efficient reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.