Republicans rev up EV rhetoric in Michigan
The Trump campaign is trying to capitalize on the growing backlash against electric vehicles in the pivotal swing state of Michigan, and the former president's message about an "EV mandate" appears to be gaining traction, Gavin Bade reports from St. Clair Shores in the Mitten State. The campaign is spending almost $1 million in the state, the historic home of the U.S. auto industry, on an ad claiming Vice President Kamala Harris "wants to end all gas powered cars." That and the "EV mandate" are distortions of Biden administration policies meant to curb tailpipe pollution and subsidize the production of EVs in the U.S. It's an issue that hits home in Michigan, where swings in the auto industry are felt acutely. Automakers and Democrats “are trying to force [EVs] down the public’s throat,” Kim Langenbach, a retired Ford engineer, told Gavin. Democrats in the state are trying to blunt the attacks by pointing out that if electric vehicles are going to be made, they should be made in Michigan. No rules under the sea — yet
The Interior Department expects to finish a draft rule guiding carbon storage off U.S. coasts by the end of the year, more than two years after a deadline ordered by Congress, Carlos Anchondo and Heather Richards write. Carbon storage in the outer continental shelf was approved in the 2022 infrastructure law, and it has seen other bipartisan support in Congress. But opponents worry that the procedure, which captures emissions from industrial sources and sequesters them, will be used to justify more fossil fuel use. This puts the final rule in the crosshairs. Investors, including the oil and gas industry, are eager to deploy carbon capture and removal as critics question whether the costly nascent technology should be funded by the government. “Creating a new regulatory program to assure the American public that carbon sequestration operations on the OCS will be safe and protective of the environment is a complex undertaking,” said John Filostrat, spokesperson for Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which is writing the rule along with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Up next for the Supreme Court: NEPA limits
The Supreme Court will consider changes to a bedrock environmental law when it starts its latest term on Monday, Pamela King writes. At issue is the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires federal agencies to take a "hard look" at the impacts of projects like pipelines. The justices are being asked to consider new limits on the law. And after the court overturned the similarly weighty Chevron doctrine in a case in June, environmental advocates are not optimistic about the fate of NEPA. “The Supreme Court has opened up such kind of amorphous ideas and allowed them to affect agencies’ legal decisions, that it invites departure from the text, departure from the purposes, and it flies to pro-industry policy points,” Lisa Heinzerling, a Georgetown Law professor, said recently. | 
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