President Joe Biden has spent just about all of his first month in office working to remove all traces of Trump policy in a wide range of areas, from foreign affairs to immigration to the environment to transportation. Those last two items are intimately linked, as transportation vehicle emissions make more than a non-trivial contribution to greenhouse-gas buildup. The majority of those emissions come from cars and trucks, and the administration has set as one of its goals making the nation’s transportation system a net-zero-carbon emitter.
The auto industry had already indicated it was willing to go where the Trump administration wasn’t by forming the Alliance for Automotive Innovation last year. Now, that group has issued a statement saying it is committed to working with the Biden administration on its carbon-emissions-reduction goals, including making all the vehicles they produce emission-free.