The Trump administration’s plan to weaken fuel-efficiency rules for cars, is one of President Trump’s most consequential environmental rollbacks to date. The proposal unveiled last week will let cars pollute more, while stripping California of its right to set its own air-quality rules.
The administration’s proposal “is contrary to the facts and the law,” the California document says, before refuting point by point the Trump administration’s arguments for weakening the nation’s long-term goals for making vehicles more fuel efficient and less polluting.
Read the article at The New York Times.