Vehicle pollution standards are both technologically and economically feasible.

The Electric Vehicle Association opposes the Trump administration's proposal to rescind the scientific endangerment finding for greenhouse gases and roll back existing clean cars and trucks standards. This misguided action would inflict significant economic hardship on American families and businesses, threaten hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs, deepen our nation’s reliance on foreign oil, and severely damage the health of people in our communities.

Andy Fraser, one of our EVA board members, shares his testimony:

“I’m here as someone living with asthma, as the founder of E-Motion, LLC, and as a representative of the Electric Vehicle Association of Greater Washington DC and MyEVA.org. I strongly oppose efforts to roll back the Clean Vehicles and Clean Trucks standards for 2025 and beyond.

Let’s be clear: the EPA does not set electric vehicle mandates. The EPA does not set fuel economy standards. The EPA sets emissions standards, as it has for decades, under the authority granted by Congress in the Clean Air Act. This rule is entirely consistent with more than 50 years of federal government practice in regulating vehicle pollution to protect public health.

Vehicle pollution standards are both technologically and economically feasible. Cars, trucks, and buses are among the leading sources of greenhouse gas pollution, which has severe, well-documented impacts on human health. Rolling back these standards would not only worsen those impacts, it would harm the more than 410,000 Americans employed in the clean vehicles industry and slow the growth of this job-creating sector.

We’ve seen what happens without strong standards. Just remember the thick brown smog that once blanketed Los Angeles and choked cities worldwide before these protections were in place. Those were days when children were kept indoors, when you could taste the air, and when “bad air days” were routine. We’ve come too far to go back.

Asthma attacks, heart disease, premature deaths — these are not abstractions. They’re measurable, preventable harms. Strong emissions standards save lives, reduce health care costs, create good jobs, and keep our air cleaner. This is not radical — it’s basic, science-based public health protection.

I urge the EPA to reject any rollback of these standards, to finalize the strongest possible protections for cars and trucks, and to keep doing what you’ve done so well for decades: protecting Americans’ right to breathe clean air.”