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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 09:20 PM Mar 2018

Trump administration picks new fight with California

The Trump administration is picking a new fight with California, this time over global warming and emissions standards for cars.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is expected this week to declare that having the nation’s auto fleet meet an average 54.5 mpg standard by 2025 is too strict, two people familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill.

The decision could have huge ramifications for California, which negotiated the target with the Obama administration in 2011 after winning a waiver from the Clean Air Act to impose its own in-state fuel economy standards.

If Pruitt decides the standard is too high, the EPA is likely to lower the target and could even seek to eliminate California’s waiver.

In California, the fight is seen as just the latest attack on a state that prides itself as ground zero for resistance to President Trump ever since Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton defeated Trump there by more than 4 million votes.

“The Trump administration certainly is looking for every opportunity to stick to it California,” Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) told The Hill Wednesday.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/380693-trump-adminsitration-picks-new-fight-with-california?userid=229233

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Freethinker65

(9,930 posts)
1. Let's bring back leaded gasoline, lead based paint, and aerosol cans
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 09:23 PM
Mar 2018

Pretty soon the solution to pollution will once again be dilution. Idiots.

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