Sentences with phrase «emissions waiver request»

Despite the study's results, the EPA has stood fast in its decision to reject California's emissions waiver request; presumably they expect the lax federal standards to help resolve L.A.'s smog woes.

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Ever since the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Stephen G. Johnson, denied California's request for a waiver allowing it to put new controls on greenhouse - gas emissions from cars and light trucks, the agency has repeatedly claimed that its new federal standard is more aggressive than California's plan.

Second, the July 2011 agreement commits EPA to grant a waiver for California's MY 2017 - 2025 greenhouse gas emission standards before California requests it or finalizes the standards to which it would apply.62

California sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in January after it rejected the state's 2005 request for a rule waiver to enact its own tailpipe emissions standards.