EVs Could Meet Biden Climate Goals鈥擩ust Not Chinese Ones

Mar 29, 2024

Last week, the Biden administration announced the , one of the of carbon emissions in the United States. But the rule was watered down by giving automakers with it鈥攖ime being precisely what the planet is running out of as the climate continues to warm.听

Rather than simply requiring the auto industry to produce more electric vehicles (EVs), the federal government says car manufacturers have to comply with the new rules by ensuring that about 鈥攁 for American car makers. Meanwhile, are flooding the global market and could . But the U.S. has imposed to keep out Chinese EVs and claimed that the smart cars are a .听

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., president and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus and host of the award-winning climate and environmental justice podcast The Coolest Show, analyzed Biden鈥檚 new tailpipe emissions rule with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent 麻豆社事件 Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.