The Trump administration is done trying to negotiate with California and will move forward with plans to revoke the state of its authority to set tougher fuel efficiency standards.
“At this point, we have to move to finalize,” Andrew Wheeler, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stated in a Monday interview with the Washington Examiner. “We don’t have time to move to reopen [negotiations]. We tried to work with California, but we were just not able to. In California, politics was playing the bigger hand than the policy.”
The EPA will introduce its final proposal sometime this spring that strips a waiver California and other states have long used to set tougher vehicle emission standards than the federal government, forcing every state in the U.S. to comply with the same rules.
The move to revoke California of its waiver comes as the Trump administration is also looking to freeze Obama-era efficiency rules meant to cut carbon emissions from the transportation industry.
The EPA, along with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is finalizing a proposal to freeze vehicle efficiency standards for cars and light trucks, in lieu of raising them annually.
The White House argues the Obama-era rules render new cars too expensive, and would prompt consumers to rely on older models that are less safe and not as environmentally friendly.
The Trump administration in August first proposed freeing fuel economy standards at 37 miles per gallon in 2020. The EPA and Department of Transportation estimated that the freeze would save $500 billion in societal costs and prevent around 1,000 traffic fatalities a year.
However, that proposal initiated a fight between the White House and California, which has enjoyed the authority to set tougher standards than the federal government. California officials and the Trump administration attempted to reach a compromise, but negotiations ended on February 21.
“California didn’t really give us a legitimate counteroffer,” Wheeler continued. “They promised it after a couple weeks of our proposal, and we waited over 12 weeks before we got an answer. The answer we got really isn’t credible.”
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So in their zeal to save the Spotted owls and Marbled Murrlets their burning up their areas they need these Eco-Wacko Idiots so lets start putting the Eco-Wackos on the fires starting with Butterfly Hill and her wacky friends
I wish you writers would stop using the term “carbon emissions” which is the term used by the left. The combustion of hydrocarbons (coal, petroleum, gas)is water vapor and carbon dioxide. There can be other molecules listed that can be an issue (especially the burning of coal but are handled by scrubbers) but none are CARBON! You just feed into the left-wing crap that “carbon” are causing some problems with climate change.
California has become an intellectual cesspool of socialist . They have a very simple plan to reduce emissions . Run the middle class off .
Open the floodgates to slave wage workers so the rich can have their pools cleaned in a cost effective manner .
If Mexico wants to enable criminals and illegals to cause economic hardship and social unrest in the USA why not just take over Mexican territory till the they control their border ? Really all that is happening is the USA is being invaded by millions of que jumpers , criminals and
desperate people taking advantage of USA kindness and generosity .
I had a short conversation with a Latino in LA a few years ago. He suggested that white Americans should be kicked out of California, that it was Mexican property.
Like I said, it was a short conversation.
No one state should have the power to set emission standard for the country, which in reality has been the case with California. If they wanted to set emission standard for their own state that would be okay and a few auto manufactures would produce a few models that could be sold there. For a state to have the power California has had is a clear case of dysfunctional government.
For that matter, the federal government shouldn’t be setting emission standards. That should be a matter of the auto makers responding to consumer demand.
Isn’t this the same state that let’s its forests over grow then blames Global Warming on wildfires started by its utility?
Right.
I want to be like them.
California where Chickens and Cougars get more protection then do the unborn or newborns who have elected a total idiot as Govenor after putting up for eight years of another idiot and and all the usial nonsense that comes with a sate run by idiots
Hey, California. Marijuana couldn’t exist without carbon dioxide. What else do you need to know?
Mary Jane’s favourite car is a ’66 Cadillac, idling in her grow-op greenhouse.