The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a motion by the Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association (TTMA) to lift the abeyance in TTMA’s case challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) 2016 rule establishing greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty engines and vehicles. The schedule set by the D.C. Circuit requires final briefs to be filed by June 2, 2020. The court severed TTMA’s case from another case brought by the Racing Enthusiasts and Suppliers Coalition (RESC) challenging different aspects of the same rule. RESC’s case will continue to be held in abeyance. Both proceedings had been held in abeyance since 2017 while the agencies consider administrative requests for reconsideration. In October 2017, the D.C. Circuit granted TTMA’s motion to stay the EPA portion of the rule, which was scheduled to take effect in 2018. In its motion to lift the abeyance, TTMA said it could “no longer afford to wait” for judicial review because the NHTSA portion of the rule would take effect in January 2021 and any delay in resolution of the proceedings beyond mid-2020 “will begin to cause significant prejudice to TTMA’s members.”

Challenge to greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty engines and vehicles.

Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association, Inc. v. EPA

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D.C. Circuit Lifted Abeyance on Truck Trailer Manufacturers’ Challenge to Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Efficiency Standards

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