Trump Revokes California Emissions Waiver
The move would undercut the state’s ability to set its own standards on tailpipe emissions.
Sep 19, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Trump said he is revoking California’s decades-long ability to set its own rules for tailpipe emissions for passenger vehicles, maintaining that such requirements should be set at the federal level, The Wall Street Journal reported. The White House first proposed the revocation last year.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) are slated to announce details in a joint news conference this morning.
Revoking the waiver also would affect 13 other states who have signed onto California’s emissions standards. The states include Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
As reported in NACS Daily in August, Ford Motor Co., Volkswagen AG, Honda Motor Co., and BMW AG struck a voluntary agreement with the California Air Resources Board to meet tougher tailpipe-emissions standards than proposed by the Trump Administration and increase fleet fuel economy by 3.7% year over year between model year 2022 and 2026.
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