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Law’s Jonathan Adler discusses possible new regulation regarding electric passenger cars

Little-noticed part of GOP bill could ‘make it impossible to regulate’
The New York TimesJonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, discussed a new regulation that would effectively force carmakers to switch most new passenger cars to electric by 2032, but House Republicans want to make it easier to block such changes by putting measures up to a vote. “It would increase the incentives for Congress to be more proactive,” he said. “We need legislators to legislate, and part of legislating is taking accountability for the big policy decisions that are being made.”