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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 nations 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 Californias 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
Freethinker65
(9,930 posts)Pretty soon the solution to pollution will once again be dilution. Idiots.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)Fuck them royally in November.
spanone
(135,632 posts)roamer65
(36,739 posts)Fuck Pruitt.