{"id":2718,"date":"2023-04-14T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2023-05-09T15:58:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:58:49","slug":"wmc-supports-prohibiting-government-mandates-on-gas-powered-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2718","title":{"rendered":"WMC Supports Prohibiting Government Mandates on Gas-Powered Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/environment\/wmc-supports-prohibiting-government-mandates-on-gas-powered-engines\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/environment\/wmc-supports-prohibiting-government-mandates-on-gas-powered-engines\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WMC\u2019s Director of Environmental &amp; Energy Policy Craig Summerfield testified in favor of legislation that would prohibit a state agency or local government from banning gas-powered engines in motor vehicles or other equipment such as a lawnmower, snow blower, or leaf blower.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple states have passed or are considering bans on the sale of gas-powered cars. In Wisconsin, Governor Evers has set a goal to transition most Wisconsin vehicles to be electric within two decades, which far exceeds current projections and may be impossible to achieve without new government mandates.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.wmc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/14100422\/Testimony-on-AB-141-AB-142-2023.4.11-v3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read WMC\u2019s testimony.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/environment\/wmc-supports-prohibiting-government-mandates-on-gas-powered-engines\/\">WMC Supports Prohibiting Government Mandates on Gas-Powered Engines<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/environment\/wmc-supports-prohibiting-government-mandates-on-gas-powered-engines\/ WMC\u2019s Director of Environmental &amp; Energy Policy Craig Summerfield&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}