Sentences with phrase «california auto emissions»

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California and 16 other states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its plan to scrap Obama - era auto - emissions standards that would require vehicles to get significantly higher gas mileage by 2025..

Twelve other states, including New York and Pennsylvania, as well as Washington, D.C., have adopted California's emission standards, setting up a face - off between more than 130 million residents — who own more than a third of the auto market — and the President.

Make it easier for Canadians to choose electric by requiring auto manufacturers to ensure that a minimum and growing percentage of all passenger cars sold in Canada will be zero - emissions vehicles — an approach pioneered in California and recently adopted in Quebec.

The Trump Administration also demanded that California, which has its own state - based, more stringent auto emission standards, must follow the federal decision or face legal challenge.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Admin., the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of California, along with a heavy dose of input from auto makers, will release a proposal by Sept. 1 outlining the new round of fuel - economy and emissions regulations for the 2017 - 2025 timeframe.

The previous round of CAFE talks, which dates back to 2007 when the industry dropped its lawsuits against California's proposed emissions standards and set the table for the combined fuel economy and CO2 federal rules, brought auto makers to the front lines in the war against climate change.

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According to the Auto Alliance ZEV sales dashboard, as of the end of October 2017, California had 176,681 battery - electric and fuel - cell vehicles — i.e., fully zero tailpipe emissions vehicles — on its roads.

For a long time now, California has always been allowed to set fuel economy and emissions standards that exceed the national standards, and auto makers simply have had to deal (usually by making all of their cars comply with the California standard).

Even if California adheres to its current auto emissions standards, population growth presents another challenge for reducing pollution levels.

Proposals floated by Trump at the meeting reportedly included setting stricter emissions standards for imported cars than American - made autos, as well as subjecting foreign vehicles to a 20 % tariff and extending the efficiency standards until 2030, five years later than currently scheduled and a key demand from California.

about Koch vs. California: These Groups Are Pushing Pruitt to Undo the State's Right to Regulate Auto Emissions

California's efforts to regulate auto emissions date back to 1966 when it became the first in the nation to regulate tailpipe emissions.

In the first quarter of 2013, Tesla reported its first - ever quarterly profit by using special credits from California's Air Resources Board, which rewards auto manufacturers for the production of «zero - emission» vehicles.

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»:

That story references the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers and the «discovery process» in a lawsuit which the «auto industry filed in 2007 against the State of California's efforts to limit vehicles» greenhouse gas emissions,» noting an anonymous lawyer forwarding what was discovered to the NYT.

· California will have new regulations by 2006 to reduce car and truck emissions that, if they survive a challenge expected from the auto industry, could be a model for New York, New Jersey and other Northeast states.

(The Hill) • A Trump administration plan to fight California's authority to set its own auto emissions standards relies on «an extraordinarily weak legal argument,» experts say.

A total of 18 states, representing 45 percent of the nation's auto market, have either adopted or pledged to implement California's proposed tailpipe emissions rules, which seek to cut vehicles» greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent between 2009 and 2016.

For no apparent reason, the state of California, Environmental Defense, and the Natural Resources Defense Council have dragged Lindzen and about 15 other global - warming skeptics into a lawsuit over auto - emissions standards.

The new mileage standard mandated by Congress is aimed at reducing gasoline consumption, which will reduce vehicles» overall «carbon footprint,» but California's rules would target total greenhouse gas emissions, including those that stem from auto air conditioning units.

Documents drawn up by the coalition's advisers were provided to lawyers by the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, a coalition member, during the discovery process in a lawsuit that the auto industry filed in 2007 against the State of California's efforts to limit vehicles» greenhouse gas emissions.

Shahmoradi's voicemail uses some of the same language the auto industry has used in suing California, Rhode Island and Vermont to block tougher emissions standards.

The mandate required 2 % of all new cars sold by the seven major auto - makers in California to meet «zero emission» standards by 1998, and 10 % by 2003.

The administration has been meeting for weeks with California representatives and car manufacturers to broker a deal in which the state could ascertain the ability to regulate auto emissions, when Carol Browner (assistant to the climate on energy and climate) began advocating a national set of rules: «The hope across the administration is that we can have a unified national policy when it comes to cleaner vehicles,» Browner said, according to the Washington Post.

California officials have said they will fight in court any attempt by the Trump administration to revoke or bypass their power to set their own auto emissions standards.

May 2, 2018 • NPR's Rachel Martin talks with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra about California and other states» lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision to rewrite auto emissions rules.

More on Auto Emissions Obama Administration Will Let States Set Auto Emissions Standards EPA Rejects California's Auto Emissions Waiver

The Obama Administration announced a key decision to bring national vehicle standards for fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions up to levels adopted in California, resolving a longstanding battle between the auto industry and state regulators.

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.

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One example is the tailpipe emissions standards for vehicles that the Obama administration implemented and Trump administration has threatened to roll back, which California wants to keep in place, and a lot of auto companies are wondering which way this is going to go.