Trump is targeting both federal and CA vehicle standards in his recent executive order – standards that not only reduce climate emissions but also slash air pollutants like nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. Undermining these rules will have major negative environmental, health, energy, and consumer impacts.
Vehicle standards likely to be targeted include EPA’s Multi-Pollutant Passenger Vehicle Emission Standards, NHTSAs Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, and Federal Heavy-Duty Truck Standards.
It’s hard to overstate the importance of standards in making progress in making real world impacts on reducing air pollution, cutting climate emissions, and reducing petroleum use. Sure, auto industry innovation is rarely standing still, but history has demonstrated that safety, efficiency and pollution innovations don’t deliver without standards in place
