In 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation announced the first-ever national limits on greenhouse gas pollution from cars and light trucks. Dubbed the “Clean Cars Rule,” it would increase vehicle fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by motor vehicles, a major source of carbon pollution in the U.S. Since…
Earthjustice and Sierra Club, together with a broad coalition of public health and environmental groups, filed a lawsuit against former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler’s Environmental Protection Agency,challenging its revocation of California’s waiver for its greenhouse gas emission standards for new motor vehicles, as well as the state’s zero emission vehicle standards.
Earthjustice and the Sierra Club, along with a coalition of other environmental groups, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its attack on California, stripping the state’s authority to set more stringent greenhouse gas vehicle standards than federal standards, and rescinding California’s Zero Emission Vehicle mandate.
Under interim Chief Andrew Wheeler, U.S. EPA proposes new policy to roll back Clean Car Standards and undo decades-old agreement with states on tailpipe pollution
First-ever national rules on greenhouse gas pollution from vehicles go into effect on July 6
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