Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach joins a coalition of 19 states challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to allow California to ban trucks, forcing truckers to buy electric trucks and mandates net-zero emissions standards.
 The coalition says California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulation is a violation of the Clean Air Act and other federal laws. The Biden administration gave California the authority to force most buses, vans, trucks, and tractor-trailers be electric by 2035. Currently, just 2% of heavy trucks sold in the United States are electric.
 The ban on traditional trucks is part of the Biden administration’s climate change policy, which raises prices for businesses and consumers. Eight other states have adopted California’s truck ban. The coalition says California’s truck ban will increase costs and demand for liquid fuels, such as biodiesel.

 The trucking industry currently provides almost 70,000 jobs in Kansas.

 Kansas joins other states like Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, in the challenge.
 The full petition can be read here.