LINCOLN- Nebraska’s efforts to fight California on new electric-truck mandates and related regulations largely ended Monday with California officials moving to repeal the proposed rules. In a Monday court filing, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Steve Cliff, executive officer of the California Air Resources Board, pledged to formally scrub from the books the “Advanced Clean Fleets” rule. The regulations, in part, would have required certain trucking companies to transition to electric trucks over time.

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers and his office led a 17-state coalition with the Nebraska Trucking Association to challenge the California rule. Last May, he said it could prevent Nebraska and other states from doing business in California or reaching its ports. Hilgers on Tuesday, announcing the “significant victory,” said the “tide is starting to turn.” Gov. Jim Pillen, who joined Hilgers to announce the lawsuit last year, thanked Hilgers for the fight that he said could have raised prices for consumers and which Hilgers said would have “been a blow to our supply chain infrastructure.”

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