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Trump revokes Biden order that had set 50% electric vehicles target for 2030 | President tells crowd that US ‘will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity’


President tells crowd that US ‘will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity’

Donald Trump took aim atfederal support for the sale of electric vehicles (EVs) on Monday, amid a flurry of promised executive orders on his first day back in the White House. “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. He has also promised to roll back auto pollution standards finalized by Biden’s administration last spring – a rule Trump calls an “EV mandate”, though it did not directly require the production of electric vehicles.

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