Biweekly Digest Archive

In February, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) paused new NEVI obligations and rescinded prior annual plan approvals pending revised guidance. This move froze approximately $2.74 billion in available, unobligated funds for Fiscal Years 2022-2025 while new guidance was drafted. Some states challenged the freeze and, in June, a federal court ordered FHWA to resume obligations for 14 plaintiff states, leaving [...]

Two weeks ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to repeal the Endangerment Finding – the determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. That finding is the legal backbone for numerous climate regulation policies in the United States, including how EPA sets limits on pollution from vehicles.   EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said [...]

Electric vehicles (EVs) have faced a series of legislative roadblocks at the federal level this year. Notably, the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill rolls back several incentives to purchase and manufacture EVs, and it’s likely that these measures could significantly hinder EV uptake in the U.S. But how are states moving on EVs? In light [...]

Earlier this month, Atlas founder Nick Nigro and I released an updated look at what it costs to own today’s best-selling cars and trucks. In a new fact sheet, we compared the total cost of ownership (TCO) for five of the most popular gasoline vehicles sold in the United States in 2024 and their closest [...]

Image Source: Shutterstock  As reconciliation bill negotiations heat up in Congress, the Senate today kicked off “vote-a-rama” on the “Big, Beautiful, Bill.” Over the weekend, the Senate narrowly passed the bill during a procedural vote, moving the bill one step closer to final passage. The latest version released on Saturday includes key clean energy tax changes, [...]

Source: Clean Economy Tracker Earlier this month, my colleagues and I published analysis on the impact of the Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit (45X) on domestic clean energy manufacturing using data from the Clean Economy Tracker. This tax credit, established under the Inflation Reduction Act, was designed to support domestic production of components used in clean energy technologies, including batteries, [...]

Our last digest outlined changes to the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) clean energy tax credits in the House spending bill, including a direct hit to the New Clean Vehicle Credit, or 30D. As written out in the text, the tax credit would terminate for vehicles placed in service after December 31, 2026, and, more immediately, the [...]

Image Source: Shutterstock For months, House Republican leaders have been crafting a new spending bill that aims to deliver on President Trump’s legislative agenda. Last week, the Ways and Means Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee passed text for the reconciliation bill that could significantly hinder electric vehicle (EV) uptake. Ways and Means Committee Text approved by the [...]

Source: How The Clean Vehicle Tax Credit Builds Domestic Manufacturing Today, my colleagues and I published a new analysis on the impact of the Clean Vehicle Tax Credit, or 30D, on domestic vehicle and battery manufacturing. The analysis found that a total of $61.9 billion in announced investments and 91,900 jobs are directly tied to facilities that [...]

Source: Local Government Direct Pay Tracker Earlier this month, Atlas Public Policy, in partnership with Climate Mayors, C40 Cities, the Sustainable Cities Fund (SCF), and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), launched a new resource showcasing how communities across the country are leveraging federal tax credits, including those for electric vehicles (EVs). The Local Government Direct [...]

Today, Atlas published a new report titled “Risks from Vehicle Tax Incentive Reform in 2025.” The paper enumerates the risks of repealing or significantly altering the federal tax credits for vehicles and manufacturing. Check out a summary of the report’s major findings. Thanks to a favorable environment, including powerful tax credits creating supply and [...]

Source: EV Market Dashboard Earlier this month, the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) released a report announcing that ten states have successfully met their collective goal of putting 3.3 million electric vehicles (EVs) on the road by 2025. This achievement marks a significant milestone in the transition to cleaner transportation and demonstrates the effectiveness [...]