The new head of the EPA announced his agency would reconsider the rules Trump and Republicans said amounted to an "EV mandate."

The agency announced Wednesday that it will begin the process of dismantling dozens of Biden-era rules for electric vehicles, power plants, clean water and more.

The American auto industry has been hamstrung by the crushing regulatory regime of the last administration," EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement. "As we reconsider nearly one trillion dollars of regulatory costs,