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Though the impact won t be felt immediately, President Biden answered urgent pleas from the automotive industry and other groups by directing a review of potential weaknesses in U.S. supply chains in an effort to address the global semiconductor chip shortage that has forced auto makers to cut back vehicle production.
Biden s executive order launched an immediate 100-day review of supply chains for four vital products semiconductor chips, large-capacity batteries for electric vehicles, critical minerals and strategic materials such as rare-earth elements, and pharmaceuticals. It also calls for an in-depth review of six industrial sectors including transportation, energy and information and communications technology within one year.
News came in late Friday from Washington state that the state House passed Bill1091 – a statewide clean fuel standard bill – and now is headed to the state Senate for voting. It passed the House with a vote of 52-46 and is the third year the House chamber has voted in support of the policy. The bill would adopt a rule establishing a Clean Fuels Program that would limit greenhouse gas emissions per unit of transportation fuel energy to 10 percent below 2017 levels by 2028 and 20 percent below 2017 levels by 2035.
In today’s Digest, the bill details, who voted for and against it, will it pass the state Senate, what it means for ethanol, biodiesel, other biofuels, and more.
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.
As chip shortage cripples auto production, Biden steps in Jamie L. LaReau, Detroit Free Press
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The auto industry might get federal relief from the shortage of semiconductor chips that has crippled vehicle production over the past several weeks.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to review the U.S. supply chains of products in key industries, including semiconductor chips that are used in various electrical components for cars, personal electronics, military equipment and other items.
It is a proactive step to mitigate further production disruptions to the auto industry, which has been hit hard by the chips shortage.