New clean air standards

Earlier this year, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a move to significantly weaken America’s clean car standards. Michelle Kinman, a clean energy advocate for Environment California, issued the following statement in response:
“Rolling back America’s clean car standards is a massive blow to public health and the environment. It is the wrong direction for the nation -- Americans deserve less pollution, not more. The EPA should be acting to protect public health and the environment.”
If fully phased in, the clean car standards would have saved six billion metric tons of carbon pollution and 12 billion barrels of oil over the lifetime of the model year 2012-2025 vehicles.

Millions are protected from the rollback

13 million residents of the fifteen “clean car” states, including California, are protected from this senseless rollback, thanks to their state’s leadership and commitment to strong clean car standards. But millions of Americans in adjoining states are not. They will be forced to use less-efficient vehicles and will be harmed by the associated health consequences. Also, because pollution doesn't respect state borders, Californians’ health will be impacted as well.
In January 2017, the EPA concluded that America’s clean car standards were effective and achievable, and should not be weakened. But now, without any change in the facts, the current administration is reversing that decision, ignoring thousands of pages of technical analysis that support keeping the standards right where they are.

Does anyone really want dirtier air for us and our children? Apparently so…

No one wants more pollution and dirtier air, but that’s exactly what we’ll have if the administration succeeds in scaling back our clean car standards. Nearly seventy percent of Americans want current fuel efficiency standards to remain in place, and tens of thousands of citizens and hundreds of health experts have indicated their support for cleaner cars.
Earlier this year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed lowering penalties for companies that fail to meet current standards. Now, not only is the administration trying to make it cheaper for polluters to contravene the standards, but they are also weakening the standards themselves. It’s past time to clean up our transportation sector, the nation’s largest source of carbon pollution. We need to move forward to clean up our cars, not pull a U-turn on the progress we are set to achieve.”

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