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July 9 (UPI) — The Trump administration on Thursday proposed to roll back a Biden-era rule on emissions from heavy duty diesel trucks because it is “unworkable.”

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed lowering requirements for heavy truck emissions systems because of issues with the technology for new trucks and penalties for older vehicles that do not measure up, the agency said in a press release.

The change is expected by the administration to save up to $6,000 per new truck and could help save truckers roughly $12 billion, Fox News and The Hill reported.

The change will shorten government requirements for engine warranties to 100,000 miles, from 450,000 miles, and will delay a requirement that trucks meet emissions standards for their first 650,000 miles — an increase from the first 435,000 miles — for three years.

“This proposal to eliminate engine deratements and reform the Biden-era … requirements will lower costs, increase safety and keep our nation’s food supply moving,” Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in the release.

The Biden administration rule was aimed at strengthening rules about nitrogen oxide emissions by improving maintenance and repair requirements over a longer period of time.

Critics have said that the new rule will weaken clean air protections and potentially affect Americans’ health, but the administration has countered that lowering business and consumer costs are an essential focus and that environmental concerns are overblown.

At least 22 people have been killed and 36 others injured when a truck carrying recently returned Afghan refugees overturned in eastern Afghanistan’s Laghman Province.

Officials say the driver lost control of the vehicle and authorities have launched an investigation.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Florida’s long-shot attempt to sue California and Washington state over the issuance of commercial driver licenses to truckers who don’t speak English and are not authorized to be in the United States.

The case stems from a crash in Florida last year that killed three people. The driver, Harjinder Singh, is accused of making an illegal U-turn that caused the accident. Singh, who is from India, was carrying a valid commercial driver’s license from California and had earlier been granted one by Washington state.

Republican-led Florida has accused the Western states, led by Democrats, of openly defying immigration laws and asked the justices to rule that states lack the authority to issue CDLs to people who are not citizens or legal permanent residents.

The Supreme Court typically hears appeals of lower-court decisions, but it sometimes takes on what are known as original lawsuits in which states sue each other in the nation’s highest court.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented from Tuesday’s order, as they often do when the court rejects an original lawsuit, saying that the court has no choice but to hear such cases.

Separately, a federal appeals court has blocked a Trump administration proposal to impose new restrictions that would severely limit which immigrants can get commercial driver’s licenses to drive a semitrailer truck or bus.