On Monday, President Trump issued an executive order beginning the repeal of the Biden Administration’s regulations on tailpipe pollution from cars and light trucks, which encourage car makers to increase production of electric vehicles. Among other things, the executive order halts the distribution of unspent government funds for vehicle charging stations from a $5 billion fund.

Former president Biden issued an executive order in 2021 that sought to ensure half of all new vehicles sold in the United States by 2030 were electric. The target, while not legally binding, has the support of U.S. and international automakers.  

Additionally, Trump will direct the Environmental Protection Agency to review rules requiring automakers to sell between 30 and 56 percent electric vehicles by 2032 in order to comply with federal emissions rules, as well as similar rules issued by the U.S. Transportation Department.

“These clean car rollbacks will burden Americans with a Trumpfecta of higher prices, more pollution and weaker competitiveness,” said Dan Becker, director of the safe climate transport campaign at the environmental non-profit Center for Biological Diversity. “Our kids and everyone with lungs will pay the price for these politically motivated rollbacks of protections for our air and the climate.”