EPA announces plan to repeal ‘twisted’ Obama-era endangerment finding
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has moved to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding that the federal government uses to regulate tailpipe emissions from the nation’s vehicle fleet.
The draft proposal announced Tuesday would remove all greenhouse gas standards for cars and trucks, including heavy-duty vehicles and engines, beginning with the 2010 and 2011 Obama-era regulations.
“The EPA’s move to rescind vehicle emission standards is a lose-lose proposition that threatens nearly half a million Americans employed in clean transportation,” said John Boesel, president of the California-based CALSTART, a group seeking to electrify all U.S. vehicles. “The technology to meet these standards is here and feasible and the transportation industry has been working and planning toward these goals. Our industrial progress must not be hindered.”
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