Sentences with phrase «auto emissions standards»

(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.

And now it's official: there's a brand new national auto emission standard in effect, which will force all cars to get an average of 35.5 MPG when sold in 2016.

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.

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.

A coalition of states, representing approximately 43 percent of the new - car sales market nationally, is suing the EPA to preserve auto emissions standards.

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

The authority to set auto emission standards was initially granted to the federal government by the 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA).

The Environmental Protection Agency's plans to ease auto emissions standards has particular resonance for Connecticut, with the potential to force the state to accept cars that are more polluting than it wants and make its notoriously bad air even worse.

California, the most polluted state in the country, is engaged in a fight with EPA to keep higher auto emissions standards.

Our appellate victories have come in matters ranging from auto emission standards, to oil exploration plans, to CERCLA liability.

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.

That's why we teamed up with multiple conservation groups and the Western Environmental Law Center to sue the federal government to allow for more stringent auto emissions standards.

For example, the auto emissions standards to which Japanese manufacturers responded more quickly than American companies were imposed by governments.

Donald Trump today reached an agreement in principle on a revised U.S. - South Korea trade deal that would open the door to more exports of U.S. cars and trucks that fail to meet Korea's auto emissions standards.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump today reached an agreement in principle on a revised U.S. - South Korea trade deal that would open the door to more exports of U.S. cars and trucks that fail to meet Korea's auto emissions standards.

Donald Trump has coerced South Korea into accepting changes in the U.S. - Korea trade agreement that would increase exports of U.S. cars that fail to meet Korea's auto emissions standards.

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.

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