Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, who is also a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2026, is assisting in the effort to stop California’s looming electric vehicle mandate.

“California and Gavin Newsom do not get to decide what cars and trucks Alabamians drive,” Marshall said. “This radical mandate is nothing more than an attempt to force the entire country into California’s failed green agenda, destroying jobs, driving up costs, and stripping away choice.”

Marshall joined a coalition of 26 states in support of ending California’s illegal war on gas-powered cars and trucks. The States’ brief filed in the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals explains the authority of Congress and President Trump to revoke waivers granted to California by the Biden Administration’s EPA.

The waivers authorized by Biden allowed California’s radical net-zero emissions to dictate what vehicles Americans purchase and to regulate trucking out of existence.

According to Marshall, California’s truck ban would not just increase costs, but would devastate the demand for liquid fuels, such as biodiesel, cutting trucking jobs across the nation.

“Alabama will never bow to California elites or let Gavin Newsom regulate our economy from Sacramento,” Marshall argued.

“If Newsom spent half as much time fixing his broken state as he does bullying others and chasing headlines on podcasts, California might not have so many families and businesses fleeing it every single day.”

Marshall is not the only Alabama official trying to stop California from implementing it’s mandates.

U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover), who sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, recently joined his colleagues in sending a letter to the Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board, inquiring about the state’s non-compliance in relation to the rollback of EV rules.

Costs for electric trucks already start around $100,000 and can reach the high six figures. Only eight other states have adopted California’s truck ban, so the special California carve-out lets one radical state overrule car and truck purchases in more than 80% of States.

Alabama joined the Iowa-led brief along with Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee