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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. to Announce Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules, a Key Effort to Fight Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/climate/trump-fuel-economy.htmlWASHINGTON The Trump administration is expected on Tuesday to announce its final rule to rollback Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards, relaxing efforts to limit climate-warming tailpipe pollution and virtually undoing the governments biggest effort to combat climate change. The new rule, written by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation, would allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles than they would have under the Obama standards and hundreds of millions of tons more than will be emitted under standards being implemented in Europe and Asia.
Trump administration officials raced to complete the auto rule by this spring, even as the White House was consumed with responding to the coronavirus crisis. President Trump is expected to extol the rule, which will stand as one of the most consequential regulatory rollbacks of his administration, as a needed salve for an economy crippled by the pandemic.
The lower fuel-efficiency standard is the single most important thing that the administration can do to fulfill President Trumps campaign promise of reforming the regulatory state, and to undo the impact that the previous administration has had on the economy, said Thomas J. Pyle, the president of the Institute for Energy Research, an organization that supports the use of fossil fuels.
Mr. Trumps critics said the rule showed the presidents disregard for science and could actually harm the economy over time. The administrations own draft economic analyses of the rule showed that it could hurt consumers by forcing them to buy more gasoline. And a February report by a panel of government-appointed scientists, many of them selected by the Trump administration, concluded that there are significant weaknesses in the scientific analysis of the rule. This is not just an inopportune moment to finalize a major rule-making, said Senator Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Environment Committee. In this case, its a completely irresponsible one.
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related, from December
95 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html
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U.S. to Announce Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules, a Key Effort to Fight Climate Change (Original Post)
Celerity
Mar 2020
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GitRDun
(1,846 posts)1. I don't think it will matter in this case
California has higher standards and automotive manufacturers will not absorb the costs of different versions of the same model...IMO
Celerity
(43,299 posts)2. Trump to Revoke California's Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/climate/trump-california-emissions-waiver.html
from my OP
from my OP
The new measure will combine with a related rule, issued last year, that revoked the right of California and other states to set their own tougher vehicle emissions standards. California has spearheaded a pair of multistate lawsuits to block both rules, escalating a political war between Mr. Trump and the nations most populous state.
GitRDun
(1,846 posts)5. Let's pray Trumpee loses this one! n/t
secondwind
(16,903 posts)3. I have no words ................
We need to push back very hard and pray for a Democrat victory in November.
Celerity
(43,299 posts)4. Rump and the Rethugs are using the VID pandemic to do a breathtaking amount of rollbacks
against the entire superstructure of governance, plus they are ripping off TRILLIONS of dollars, right in plain sight. The trillions stolen /redistributed upwards to the top .001% will then be used as a rationale to crush the social safety net and social security, etc etc etc.
Rob the entire town whilst the fields are on fire, and also execute the sheriff.