A major political and legal battle lies ahead in the wake of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to roll back emissions standards requiring cars and light trucks sold in the U.S. average more than 50 miles per gallon by 2025.
Mary Nichols, head of the California Air Resources Board said, “This decision takes the U.S. auto industry backward, and we will vigorously defend the existing clean vehicle standards and fight to preserve one national clean vehicle program,” adding that the EPA’s decision “changes nothing in California and the 12 other states with clean-car rules that reduce emissions and improve gas mileage — those rules remain in place.”
California and the 12 other states demanding stricter standards represent more than a third of the U.S. auto market.
Read the article in The Washington Post