ATLANTA – A lobbying group representing the oil and fuel trade launched a seven-figure advert marketing campaign in Georgia and eight different states Wednesday focusing on a proposal to tighten rules on fossil-fuel emissions from passenger autos.
The U.S. Environmental Safety Company (EPA) introduced new guidelines on auto emissions final month in a bid to steer the auto trade and its clients towards shopping for extra electrical autos.
Georgia has made a serious dedication to EVs, together with Hyundai’s $5.5 billion funding in an enormous EV manufacturing plant west of Savannah now underneath development and a $5 billion deliberate EV manufacturing unit close to Covington that automaker Rivian has placed on maintain.
The American Gasoline & Petrochemicals Producers is preventing again with advertisements that can run in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Ohio, Maine, and Montana urging People to contact their U.S. senators to assist at the least two measures to dam the brand new EPA guidelines.
“The USA Senate has the ability to cease President Biden’s illegal coverage banning most new fuel automobiles, but it surely’s going to take each Democrats and Republicans to ship on that and shield shopper freedoms,” the advert’s narrator states.
“With essential Senate votes on the horizon, it’s crucial that People are knowledgeable in regards to the president’s fuel automobile ban agenda and have the chance to contact their senators to make a distinction.”
Six of the 9 states the place the advertisements will run – together with Georgia – are thought of battleground states for this yr’s presidential election. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump vowed on the marketing campaign path this week to revoke the EPA rule if he’s elected.
The brand new rule is geared toward ensuring that inside eight years, most passenger autos offered within the U.S. are both all-electric or gas-electric hybrids. The crackdown on fossil-fuel auto emissions is a part of President Joe Biden’s agenda to fight local weather change.
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Ads in Georgia, eight other states oppose crackdown on auto emissions
