Sentences with phrase «auto emissions waiver»
More on Auto Emissions Obama Administration Will Let States Set Auto Emissions Standards EPA Rejects California's Auto Emissions Waiver
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As part of the «Historic Agreement» 12 brokered by Obama Environment Czar Carol Browner, California and other states agreed to consider compliance with EPA's greenhouse gas emission standards as compliance with their own.13 But in return, auto manufacturers and their trade associations had to support both the Tailpipe Rule and the California waiver.14 In a September 30, 2011 letter to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa summarized the terms for auto makers under the «Historic Agreement»:
If CA wants to have * stricter * emissions controls than the US, it apples to the EPA for a waiver, which it has done ~ 50 times, and until just recently (the CO2 / auto one), has always been granted with minimal fuss.
California, which has a waiver under the 1970 Clean Air Act giving it the right to set its own vehicle emissions standards, reached an agreement with the Obama administration and the auto industry that established the first limits on tailpipe carbon emissions.