Trump administration threatens California over emissions deal with automakers
The letter from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation is the latest sign of President Trump’s anger at California and the car manufacturers that have bucked his plans to roll back regulations put in place to combat climate change.
that only the federal government has the authority to set fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars.“Congress has squarely vested the authority to set fuel economy standards for new motor vehicles, and nationwide standards for GHG vehicle emissions, with the federal government, not with California or any other State,” the letter said. GHG is an abbreviation for greenhouse gases, which cause global warming.
Mary Nichols, head of the California Air Resources Board, who negotiated the agreement with the four automakers, chided the administration for seeking to overturn the deal. During President Obama’s tenure, his administration announced several policies aimed at limiting U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The two most consequential were a plan announced in 2015 to
Independent scientists have poked holes in the agencies’ data, senior political officials tasked with working on the rollback have left the administration, and automakers, which originally asked Trump to soften the requirements, have revolted in opposition to the president’s proposal, which they say will hurt their bottom line.
“Henry Ford would be very disappointed if he saw his modern-day descendants wanting to build a much more expensive car, that is far less safe and doesn’t work as well, because execs don’t want to fight California regulators,” he wrote in a tweet last month.
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