Electric car subsidies are heading for the chopping block. A tax bill recently passed by House Republicans is set to stop billions in taxpayer cash from being spent on electric vehicle purchases.

If embraced by the Senate and signed into law by President Donald Trump, the bill would gut long-standing government handouts for going electric.

The move comes on the heels of another climate policy embraced by Republicans. Earlier this year, Trump announced plans to roll back burdensome rules that effectively force American consumers to buy electric, rather than gas-fueled, cars. The Environmental Protection Agency has called that move the “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.”

Not everyone sees it that way. Jason Rylander, legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, assailed Trump’s efforts, noting that his “administration’s ignorance is trumped only by its malice toward the planet.”

Other similarly aligned groups have voiced similar sentiments arguing that ending these rules would “cost consumers more, because clean energy and cleaner cars are cheaper than sticking with the fossil fuels status........

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