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California Ready for Fight Over Rollback of Fuel Efficiency Standards

The Washington Post

The Trump administration’s rollback of the Obama administration’s fuel efficiency standards for automobiles took another step when the Transportation Department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent a proposal to the Office of Management and Budget.

The draft of the overhauled standard would eliminate automakers’ obligation to boost fuel efficiency after 2021 and would set up a clash with California by challenging its ability to set its own stricter standards, a power granted to the state by the Clean Air Act.

Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, said that once the OMB begins the comment period and makes the proposal public, “then let the lawsuits begin.”

Read the article at The Washington Post.

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