Trump ends ‘electric vehicle mandate,’ withdraws US from Paris climate agreement

The orders include eliminating the so-called “electric vehicle mandate,” Trump’s phrase for a Environmental Protection Agency rule that required auto manufacturers to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half in new light- and medium-duty vehicles beginning in 2027.

By calling a national emergency on energy, Trump is making it the priority of his administration to increase the domestic production of oil and other forms of fossil-fuel energy, White House officials said. It comes as U.S. crude oil production has already hit an all-time high over the past year.

Joey Garrison