The Biden administration will drop its current efforts to evaluate the nation’s smog pollution standards and start again, in what environmentalists are describing as an unnecessary delay. In a letter dated Friday to a panel of science advisers, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan said he would restart the agency’s review of regulations for…
electric vehicles make up less than 6% of us sales. the ambition here is to get it to 66% in less than a decade. starting with increasingly stringent pollution regulations on the 2027 model year and then ramping up to 2030 to the state of california has already voted to ban the sale of new gasoline cars in 2035. europe, canada, the uk will probably match that and this might attached us federal ambitions to california s usually more progressive environmental laws, but this would demand an entire reimagining of auto assembly lines and charging stations and smart grids and power supplies right now, tony blinken. the state department has forged deals recently with countries like the congo and zambia, where cobalt is mined and needed for these new vehicles in the amount of copper that needs to be mind to meet these goals is astronomical compared to that of
increasinglily from a national security perspective, they are the pacing threat. we are worried about that. and if they are if they have decided to double down on incentivizing private capital going to research and development and we are going the opposite direction that is a red flag. it s not just aerospace and defense. it impacts small companies focused on technical logical entirety. a lot of talk about that at the national defense forum. thanks so much eric fanning. great. thanks for having me. bret: up next, president biden proposes a major shakeup in how democrats run the primary system. a major shakeup. you want to hear this. first, beyond our borders tonight, britain s opposition labor party handily wins a special election for a northwest england seat in parliament. it is seen as the first test of voter sentiment since conservative prime minister rishi sunak took office in october. negotiations conclude on potential pollution regulations for the plastics industry. more