Posted on 04/27/2018 6:28:12 PM PDT by Drew68
The Trump administration has drafted a new set of regulations on planet-warming emissions from cars and light trucks that would dramatically weaken Obama-era standards. The proposal, if implemented, would also set up a legal clash between the federal government and California by challenging the state’s authority to set its own, stricter, air pollution rules.
Details of the proposal, which is being jointly drafted by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department and is expected to be sent to the White House for approval in coming days, were described to The New York Times by a federal official who had seen them but was not authorized to discuss the matter.
The proposal follows an announcement this month by the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, that the Trump administration intended to weaken the stringent vehicle fuel economy standards set by the Obama administration that aimed to roughly double the average fuel economy of new cars, S.U.V.s and light trucks by 2025.
The E.P.A. declined to comment on the emissions proposal, which could still change before being made public.
In the draft, the agencies lay out eight different options for revising the Obama-era standards. The preferred course of action would freeze fuel-economy standards at 2020 levels for both cars and light trucks, greatly slowing progress in reducing auto emissions.
The proposal also challenges California’s authority to impose its own vehicle standards.
Currently, California has a waiver under the Clean Air Act to impose its own, stricter, air pollution regulations on cars and trucks to deal with problems like smog. But the administration’s draft proposal argues that California cannot use this waiver to set standards on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles because that would be tantamount to regulating fuel economy, which states are forbidden from doing under a 1975 law.
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THIS was exactly the type of stuff I wanted to see happen during a Trump Administration.
I am glad that I do not live in California, not only do they have strict air standards they also have a list of chemicals that can cause cancer in the State of California.
This is good but they really need to just abolish the CAFE standards altogether.
OK, just one more fight with Kalifornia and Moonbeam. Ho hum.
California, trailing from in front of the pack.
You gotta feel sorry for it’s leaders once in a while. Pies in the face all the time gets wearisome.
Mind you, I don’t feel sorry for them.
IMO they’re anti-American and anti-California paradise.
Screw them, and if it involves prison time so much the better.
I say let California have its own air standards so long as the ICC remains in full force — Meaning they cannot reject cars manufactured in another state.
Giddy up giddy up 409!!!
Heck yea! I’m ready for a carburetor fueled, high compression, tire smoking, emission blowing gas hog!!
Yea! Get some!!!
Why did I sell my 1969 GTO? lol
Exactly. State's rights and vote with your feet.
Yeah, why?
“:^)
“I am glad that I do not live in California, not only do they have strict air standards they also have a list of chemicals that can cause cancer in the State of California.”
I think I saw one of the cancer warnings posted at our local Starbucks. Because of coffee. Not joking.
the vehicle emissions testing system in Californication is a giant-sized ripoff and boondoggle. And causes Californicators tons of trouble, inconvenience, difficulty (and added cost of living).
there’s no excuse why CA should be allowed to impose such regulations on its subjects
“You gotta feel sorry for it’s leaders once in a while.”
Umm.. no. You’re out here- there’s no way we can feel sorry for these criminals.
I’m hoping that very soon they will be swinging from trees like so many pinatas
90%-95% of what CARB does to us in this state depends on the Waiver, hopefully this shuts them down forever
All of that crap will be tied up in court until the Democrats come back to power.
I live in California and have to be careful when reloading ammo because of the California cancer warnings on lead. I have the list in front of me at all times while melting lead and pouring it into a mold to make bullets, while drinking coffee. Maybe if I moved to Nevada I wouldn't have to worry.
California can import European cars.
I went back in the 1990s and boy did I notice a huge change in the air.
It was a Republican who signed that bill.
And, it was a Republican governor who got the ball rolling to clean up San Francisco Bay when it was a cesspool.
Just say'n.
If this hastens the day of Caliexit—OOH RAH!
“...planet-warming emissions...”
They just had to get that in there, didn’t they?
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