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From the Daily Caller: The Supreme Court sided Friday with oil companies seeking to challenge California’s electric vehicle regulations.
In a 7-2 ruling, the court allowed energy producers to continue their lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to approve California regulations that require manufacturing more electric vehicles.
“The government generally may not target a business or industry through stringent and allegedly unlawful regulation, and then evade the resulting lawsuits by claiming that the targets of its regulation should be locked out of court as unaffected bystanders,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion. “In light of this Court’s precedents and the evidence before the Court of Appeals, the fuel producers established Article III standing to challenge EPA’s approval of the California regulations.”
Kavanaugh noted that “EPA has repeatedly altered its legal position on whether the Clean Air Act authorizes California regulations targeting greenhouse-gas emissions from new motor vehicles” between Presidential administrations.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. The other liberal justice on the court, Elena Kagan, sided with conservatives on this case.
The 7-2 decision is from Justice Kavanaugh. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson dissented. https://t.co/vnu4x8ZIwH
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 20, 2025
Advancing American Freedom, a conservative advocacy group founded by former VP Mike Pence, cheered the ruling, writing, “Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a win for both American energy and the Constitution. In Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA, the Court allowed a challenge to California’s EV mandate to proceed; a mandate that stems from special treatment no state should receive. One state shouldn’t dictate national policy.”
Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a win for both American energy and the Constitution.
In Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA, the Court allowed a challenge to California’s EV mandate to proceed; a mandate that stems from special treatment no state should receive.
One state… https://t.co/fSJeVMFcjg pic.twitter.com/G4cQKqvCig
— Advancing American Freedom (@AmericanFreedom) June 20, 2025
However, the Trump administration has already moved to slap down California’s EV mandates.
On May 22, the U.S. Senate voted to block California’s electric car mandate in a 51-44 vote. President Trump signed the bill into law on June 12, and the state of California has responded by filing a lawsuit.
Earlier this week the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) declared on social media, “The last few months will likely be remembered as a watershed moment…. California’s elected officials have finally started taking seriously the idea that high pump prices are the result of their state’s overly aggressive environmental policies.”
Full piece from @lrntex: https://t.co/qCVOfxvKj3
— AFPM (@AFPMonline) June 18, 2025
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