On March 9, 2022, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rescinded a rule promulgated by the Trump Administration and revived California’s Clean Air Act waiver, allowing the state.
US Environmental Protection Agency EPA rescinded a rule promulgated by the Trump Administration and revived California’s Clean Air Act waiver, allowing the state to set its own greenhouse gas emissions for cars and establish a zero-emissions vehicle program.
US Environmental Protection Agency EPA rescinded a rule promulgated by the Trump Administration and revived California’s Clean Air Act waiver, allowing the state to set its own greenhouse gas emissions for cars and establish a zero-emissions vehicle program.
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The proposal ends a battle over California s waiver to set stricter limits, which 14 other states follow.
The Trump administration s fuel economy targets for model years 2022-2025 would have increased US oil demand by an estimated 500,000 b/d. I am a firm believer in California s long-standing statutory authority to lead, said EPA Administrator Michael Regan. The 2019 decision to revoke the state s waiver to enforce its greenhouse gas pollution standards for cars and trucks was legally dubious and an attack on the public s health and wellbeing.
Trump s EPA in September 2019 formally revoked California s waiver to set stricter fuel economy targets, but 23 states and several major cities were fighting the move in court.
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