tRump to Bar California from Setting Healthier Air Standards for Cars

[Truman62]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will announce as early as Wednesday it is revoking California’s authority to set its own vehicle greenhouse gas
standards and blocking states from setting tailpipe emission rules -- a move that will spark a furious legal challenge, two auto industry officials said on Tuesday.

Trump met with senior officials last Thursday and agreed to greenlight the plan to bar California from setting fuel efficiency standards or requiring zero emission
vehicles, Reuters reported last week. The White House declined to comment.

The administration plans to issue separate rules rolling back Obama-era fuel economy requirements in the coming weeks. A formal announcement is tentatively set
for Wednesday at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) headquarters and automakers and dealers have been invited to attend, industry officials said.

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, speaking to a group of auto dealers, said Tuesday that "in the very near future, the Trump administration will begin taking the
steps necessary to establish one set of national fuel-economy standards."

Under Trump, federal regulators have backed freezing emissions requirements for new cars and trucks at 2020 levels through 2026. Administration officials say its
final regulation will include a modest boost in annual efficiency requirements but far less than what the Obama administration set in 2012.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-bar-california-setting-vehicle-174730037.html


I thought ONLY Dictators did that sort of thing...

[wvit1001]

what's the purpose of his doing this?    the auto companies aren't asking for it.

[Truman62]

All I can think of is that the gas companies want it?