Traffic on the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles in 2018. The Trump administration is weakening auto pollution standards, rolling back a key Obama-era policy that sought to curb climate change.Traffic on the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles in 2018. The Trump administration is weakening auto pollution standards, rolling back a key Obama-era policy that sought to curb climate change.
But consumer watchdog organizations, environmental groups and even the Environmental Protection Agency's own scientific advisory board have raised concerns about that rationale, saying the weakened standards will lead to dirtier air and cost consumers at the gas pump long-term. "Our final rule...strikes the right regulatory balance that protects our environment, and sets reasonable targets for the auto industry," Wheeler said in a statement.will toughen carbon dioxide emissions standards by 1.5% a year through model year 2026, compared to about 5% a year under the Obama policy.proposed freezing the standards altogether without any increase.
The Trump administration asserts the new rule will save lives because Americans will buy newer, safer vehicles. But Carper points out that its own analysis finds there would be even more premature deaths from increased air pollution.
CWaddington504 No end to the damage 45 has done to the world
Trump 2020. I love Tesla, Ev's will be 99% of all cars in 25 year. Don't worry, just keep going science.
Do we really need any further evidence that Trump only cares about himself and money, even if it kills us?
Then again, this makes me wonder...is this the way to increase oil consumption for the price war going on with Saudi and Russia?
thirdrowtesla This will have an ironic effect on US automakers. They will continue to foot drag on electric, and it will bankrupt them.
thirdrowtesla Increasing economy from 4.35L/100km to 5.8L/100km
thirdrowtesla This is so harmful to the environment! We need more EVs not more pollution. Earth is our only habitable planet and she can’t take much more. Consumers need to tell mfgs they don’t want cars that pollute more. $ speaks.
JMaverickJacks1 You mean the epa regulations that control the pollution that causes asthma that is a dangerous preexisting condition for COVIDー19 ?
Once Trump realizes that Obama used indoor plumbing, Trump will outlaw indoor plumbing.
THE EMISSION RULES NEED TO BE IN CHINA AND INDIA, THEY HAVE MORE CARS EMITTING SHIT COMPARED TO US.. AND DID YOU KNOW CHINA ORGANIZES TOURS TO ANARTICA?! DO YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF CARBON FOOT PRINT THAT LEAVES?! BUT I BET THAT AINT IN THE PARIS AGREEMENT!!
I wonder just how much money this con man is going to siphon off the taxpayer to risk of health and planet just because he had tiny man syndrome?
There is no bottom. TrumpLiesAmericansDie
If virus does not kill us, science denier gop think it is a good idea to keep poisoining the air. TrumpGenocide TrumptheWorstPresidentEVER TrumpKills TrumpKillsAmericans TrumpLiesAmericansDie LiarInChief TrumpVirus TrumpPandemic incompetentInChief
Have we learned nothing? Gut healthcare - pandemic China price war - faulty masks Lower emissions standards - apocalypse?
Let's stick it to Mother Nature for COVID19
davidfolkenflik Trump administration poisons air
You lost trumpians with the word “scientific”. They believe science is just make believe or silly thinking.
Well, Trump first dismantle National Security Council global health security team, probably because it was setup by Obama, and we got 'perfect pandemic response' to coronavirus. Now he will roll back emission standards and we will get 'perfect climate response'.
It’s not a bad thing. It allows for more space to operate and use newer technologies that may be more eco-friendly than a government regulation. Innovation, not regulation, will solve the climate criss.
We will have a lot to rectify when he is removed.
He's already been told by auto makers, they will continue to make cars with CA emissions standards. This move makes him a joke to all of them.
Fantastic.
FuckTrumpLiarAndHypocrite
Don't worry EVs will dictate what happens.
This was going to cost our economy hundreds of millions of dollars, and cost consumers on an individual level thousands of dollars every time they bought a car
Of course he would. Today's world brought to us by the neo Republican party where denying compassion, science, facts, equality and accountability is a delightful daily payback for liberal ideas and liberals in general.
Good lord the GOP are super duper DUMB
WHY
obama was a bad president...like all dems...he didn't care about the American People...
Let me rewrite the headline: 'The Trump administration has finalized rules that enable more pollution and worse gas mileage for cars and trucks.' Stop with the finger pointing and focus on the facts!! We care about emissions - not the polarizing of who's efforts got deleted!
In the face of all scientific evidence to the contrary this irresponsible DT´s administration deepens and widens its ill conceived, lethal policies.
Yay! Cheaper cars coming! And faster too!
Lolol what characterizes a trump supporter? Anyone?
Trumps tweeted 2020 campaign video utilizes the logo of a known fascist as well as white supremacist group
It is professed that the Sahara desert was once an ocean, but due to climate change it is now desert, I blame the auto industry. My point, there’s no guarantees in life, just appreciate the fact that your alive and well and you have the freedom to bitch.
Even in times of crisis, Trump never ceases to make every wrong choice possible.
There is no bottom to realDonaldTrump and how low he can go to ruin our climate and pollute our cities. He is unfit to lead our country
If Obama did it, it wasn't what was best for America. MAGA
Prescription is DirtyAir for Covid19 diminished lung capacity?
Concerns? How about horror? Does anyone smart actually think that raising pollution levels is a good idea?
Oh ok cool because his botched response to the coronavirus wasn’t a sufficient middle finger to the health of Americans, he has to also go ahead and continue destroying the planet. What a terrific guy.
WhiteHouse can't govern AT ALL, but they can manage to do this. It boggles the mind.
Literally hell on earth with this CHEETO
The problem with that is that US cars won’t able to be sold outside of the US because they won’t meet emission standards of other countries
Because during a pandemic that attacks your respiratory system, we want to breathe in auto emissions to completely damage our lungs. Thanks Republicans! :::sarcasm for the sarcastically impaired:::
That asshoe
The evil he’s accomplished in such a short time is astounding.
.The question is how much$$$$ is he and his cronies getting $$ from that!? Sigh
They really are a death cult.
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