Epa To Reverse Finding That Greenhouse Gases Are Bad For Humans

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Happy Wednesday! It's July 30, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift, your regular roundup of nan apical automotive headlines from astir nan world, successful 1 place. This is wherever you'll find nan astir important stories that are shaping nan measurement Americans thrust and get around.

In this morning's edition, we're looking astatine nan EPA's caller ruling successful nan look of each science, arsenic good arsenic really Porsche and Aston Martin are responding to tariffs. We'll besides look astatine really Toyota's weathered nan waste and acquisition warfare storm, and nan desperation of lithium miners successful a world pinch less EVs than they'd hoped.

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The dangers of greenhouse gases, to some our situation and nan group that unrecorded wrong it, have been known for decades. The subject has agelong been settled, but nan subject is inconvenient for nan group who make their money trading greenhouse state emitters. So, successful nan look of technological consensus, nan Trump management has recovered a caller response: Nuh-uh. From nan New York Times:

Lee Zeldin, nan administrator of nan Environmental Protection Agency, said connected Tuesday nan Trump management would revoke nan technological determination that underpins nan government's ineligible authority to combat ambiance change.

Speaking astatine a motortruck dealership successful Indianapolis, Mr. Zeldin said nan E.P.A. planned to rescind nan 2009 declaration, known arsenic nan endangerment finding, which concluded that planet-warming greenhouse gases airs a threat to nationalist health. The Obama and Biden administrations utilized that determination to group strict limits connected greenhouse state emissions from cars, powerfulness plants and different business sources of pollution.

"The connection would, if finalized, magnitude to nan largest deregulatory action successful nan history of nan United States," Mr. Zeldin said. He said nan connection would besides erase limits connected greenhouse state emissions from cars and trucks connected nan nation's roads.

Scientific statement is often overturned, but it's mostly overturned by new, much meticulous science. That's not what's happening here, nary anterior theories are being disproven based connected caller data. This is conscionable looking astatine decades of technological investigation into a point that's sidesplitting us, and simply saying that it's bully actually. We unrecorded successful hellhole and it's only getting worse. 

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The U.S. has a tariff woody pinch nan European Union, benignant of. We astatine slightest cognize that cars will beryllium taxable to a 15% tariff, which is simply a monolithic hike from nan 2.5% tariff they faced earlier nan Trump administration. Now that that number is group successful stone, automakers are responding nan simplest measurement they cognize how: Raising prices. From Reuters:

European luxury carmakers including Porsche and Aston Martin person changeable to nan beforehand of nan grid pinch U.S. value hikes, which could constituent nan measurement for bigger brands to travel successful their aftermath arsenic companies walk connected nan costs of tariffs.

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On Wednesday, Volkswagen's luxury marque Porsche said it had raised U.S. prices by betwixt 2.3% and 3.6% successful July, pinch nary plans for now to found a U.S. accumulation beingness – a move that would fto it debar nan levies.

"This is not a large wind that will pass," Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said aft nan institution trim its full-year profit target and flagged a $462 cardinal deed from tariffs successful nan first half. "We proceed to look important challenges astir nan world."

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British sports-car shaper Aston Martin  said it had made incremental value increases successful nan United States since past month, issuing a profit informing citing a deed from U.S. import tariffs and prolonged suppressed Asian demand.

As of yet, nary automaker has matched nan tariff hike pinch a 7.5% level value summation crossed its lineup. It's not inconceivable that cars do make that jump, but companies whitethorn effort to conceal it successful exemplary twelvemonth changes aliases facelifts to thief nan pill spell down. 

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Toyota, though, is improbable to jack up its prices to specified a degree. The company's already doing good enough, already moving capable units to nan U.S., that it simply whitethorn not request to hike MSRPs. Lower profits, higher volume, these things tin travel retired successful nan wash. From Automotive News:

Toyota shrugged disconnected nan effect of U.S. tariffs connected vehicles and parts successful June arsenic its car exports to nan U.S. kept climbing and helped thrust grounds income for nan world's biggest automaker.

Toyota's exports to nan U.S. roseate 16 percent to 52,745 vehicles successful June, much than 2 months aft U.S. President Donald Trump imposed duties connected shipments from Japan and different countries..

The upswing helped substance a 2.7 percent summation successful world income to 937,246 successful June for Toyota Motor Corp., including measurement from nan Toyota and Lexus brands arsenic good arsenic deliveries from nan Daihatsu minicar subsidiary and Hino truck-making unit.

Japan gets nan aforesaid car tariff complaint arsenic Europe, truthful we'll spot really Toyota fares arsenic some nan institution and its consumers commencement to consciousness nan effects of that. One thing's for sure, though: Even from a institution nan size of Toyota, don't expect prices to driblet immoderate clip soon. 

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When EVs were skyrocketing successful adoption, thinkpieces nan world complete began to wonderment if we moreover had capable lithium connected Earth to meet demand. Now that request extracurricular of China is opening to stagnate arsenic EVs look nan problem of crossing nan chasm, and lithium miners are being caught pinch their pants down. From Bloomberg:

A slew of firm reports from Australian lithium producers has thrown a caller spotlight this week connected an manufacture riven by write-downs, costs controls and difficult choices arsenic nan world's electric-vehicle modulation runs into headwinds.

IGO Ltd. and Mineral Resources Ltd. flagged imaginable impairments, Pilbara Minerals Ltd. stressed cost-cutting efforts, and Liontown Resources Ltd. said it had to resell immoderate worldly primitively earmarked arsenic offtake for Ford Motor Co.

"I don't deliberation there's anyone globally making overmuch successful nan measurement of margins location aliases enjoying nan play we're in," IGO's main executive serviceman Ivan Vella said connected an investor telephone Wednesday.

Now that nan United States is afloat shoving its caput successful nan soil pinch respect to ambiance science, what will that mean for nan EV market? Whatever it is, it can't beryllium good. 

We haven't made overmuch advancement connected nan "achieving nan modular of healthcare offered by immoderate different able nation" front successful nan decades since. 

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