Roll back the clock. More pollution!
Republicans are big on states rights except when they don’t like the states’ policies.
Trump freezing fuel efficiency standards would cost the US economy more than $450 billion by 2050 @EnergyInnovLLC https://t.co/EU2jJOPIiH
— Christine Hart (@ChristineNHart) July 26, 2018
Trump administration hopes to curb states’ authority and freeze standards on fuel efficiency
His hatred of President Obama and goal to regress our country back to the 1980’s is unrelenting! No thought of the environment or consumer!😫😫😫🤮🤮 https://t.co/11O2MuNtXa pic.twitter.com/OpFSwIVMpA— Cheryl Brown (@ckhn1) July 25, 2018
Trump is reportedly trying to kill California’s clean car regulations and is expected to release a plan this week that halts tightening fuel efficiency standards and revokes California’s unique ability to impose stricter air pollution controls. https://t.co/OQPcMpRmb6 via @qz
— EssenViews/Commentary (@essenviews) July 26, 2018
A Ford spokesperson pointed to a recent column from CEO Jim Hackett and Chairman Bill Ford saying, “We support increasing clean car standards through 2025 and are not asking for a rollback.” https://t.co/s3F0XSHSYl
— Jones Murphy (@JonesMurphy) July 26, 2018
Important for Canada too. Our tailpipe stds are harmonized with US. Embracing tighter California stds (matched by other states) ceases to be an option if Trump Admin withdraws Clean Air Act waiver that allows CA to depart from national std. #cdnpoli https://t.co/E2TxMytQLU
— Kathryn Harrison (@khar1958) July 25, 2018
Opposing California, new EPA head calls for single U.S. fuel efficiency standardhttps://t.co/zeBfBfiLlF
— TIME (@TIME) July 25, 2018
update 8/1/18:
White House approves plan to freeze national fuel-efficiency standards https://t.co/r3moqA4Hqs
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 1, 2018
Sad! 