Sentences with phrase «auto emissions rules»

Seventeen states and the District of Columbia are challenging a Trump administration plan to roll back auto emissions rules.

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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.

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But there were hints that the German auto industry, if not VW in particular, was uncomfortable with the U.S. emissions rules.

Fifty years of auto - emission rules have had an impact, but peak levels of harmful ozone remain high

They have leveled blistering criticism about Obama's efforts to slow down the Keystone Pipeline; they don't like his new auto emissions standards; they are unhappy with new EPA mercury emissions rules for boilers; and they don't like the fact that permits for drilling and fracking on federal lands have slowed.

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.

Neutered two years ago from the collapse of new - vehicle sales amid a foundering economy, auto makers dropped their historically combative stance over stricter rules and gave over to an historic hike in CAFE in return for a single national tailpipe emissions standard.

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»:

Judge William K. Sessions ruled in Burlington September 12, 2007, that Vermont could regulate auto emissions in the case, known as Green Mountain Chrysler v. Crombie.

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.

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.

In a major victory over carmakers and their attempts to rebuff state measures aimed to rein in GHG emissions, Vermont won a court ruling last week mandating that auto companies work to develop new technologies to raise their fuel economy standards.

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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.

The Obama administration is considering establishing national rules for regulating greenhouse gas emissions for automobiles, according to White House officials, a move backed by both auto manufacturers and some environmentalists.