President Trump issued a presidential memorandum expanding Americans’ freedom to fix their vehicles.
“During the previous administration, crushing environmental regulatory burdens caused the average cost of vehicles to soar. My Administration has therefore taken historic action to reduce or remove these burdensome regulations and decrease the rising costs that consumers face,” the memorandum reads. “With the largest deregulatory action in United States history, my Administration rescinded regulations concerning greenhouse gas emissions for light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles, and affirmed the right to fix agricultural and non-road equipment.”
The memo calls out a California policy on the subject.
“The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has the only certification process for aftermarket parts currently recognized as sufficient under the CAA, but that process is faulty,” the memo adds. “Obtaining a CARB Executive Order certifying that a part does not increase vehicle emissions takes increasingly long — now well over a year — even when an applicant has all of the paperwork and testing in order.”
The memo directs EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to clarify what actions individuals may take to fix their vehicles’ emissions systems in accordance with the Clean Air Act and encourage “expedite alternative certification pathways for aftermarket parts, reducing reliance on California’s slow and costly certification process and providing greater certainty to manufacturers and consumers,” a fact sheet reads.
Declaring Americans’ individual “freedom to fix,” the memorandum emphasizes, “The Administrator of the EPA shall consider deprioritizing civil tampering enforcement actions against anyone who, in good faith, attempts to fix his or her own vehicle to its original configuration.”
President Trump’s memo aligns with his priority to reduce costs for American families and cut regulations.
