Sentences with phrase «fuel efficiency rules»

WASHINGTON, May 1 - California and a group of 16 other states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in federal appeals court challenging the Trump administration's decision to declare U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules through 2025 «not appropriate,» the states said.

WASHINGTON, May 2 - The White House is planning a meeting next week between President Donald Trump and senior leaders of major U.S. and foreign automakers to discuss planned fuel efficiency rule changes through 2026, automakers and administration officials said on Wednesday.

On Jan. 13, then - EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy finalized a determination that landmark fuel efficiency rules instituted by President Barack Obama should be finalized through 2025, a bid to maintain a key part of his administration's climate legacy.

WASHINGTON, May 1 - California and a group of 16 other states on Tuesday challenged the Trump administration's decision to revise strict U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules put in place under former President Barack Obama.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy on Friday finalized a determination that the landmark fuel efficiency rules instituted by President Barack Obama should be locked in through 2025, a bid to maintain a key part of his administration's climate legacy.

WASHINGTON, May 2 - The White House is planning a meeting next week with President Donald Trump and senior leaders of major U.S. and foreign automakers to discuss planned fuel efficiency rule changes through 2026, automakers and administration officials said on Wednesday.

said he tried to negotiate a deal with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to preserve landmark federal fuel efficiency rules for vehicles, but the EPA chief reneged on the agreement.

(Associated Press, New York Times) • Trump met with executives from 10 major automotive companies Friday to discuss relaxing fuel efficiency rules.

WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters)- California and a group of 16 other states on Tuesday challenged the Trump administration's decision to revise strict U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules put in place under former President Barack Obama.

President Trump is planning to meet with senior leaders of major automakers next week to discuss fuel efficiency rule changes through 2026, automakers and administration officials told Reuters.

The 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision in April to declare U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules through 2025 «not appropriate.»

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which represents GM, Toyota, Volkswagen, and nine other automakers, sent a letter to EPA head Scott Pruitt calling the fuel efficiency rules «the product of egregious procedural and substantive defects» that are «riddled with indefensible assumptions, inadequate analysis and a failure to engage with contrary evidence.»

Fuel efficiency rules, ethanol mandates and other government programs depend on a rapid rise in new car sales

McCarthy said in a statement her determination, a legally binding decision to maintain the fuel efficiency rules, rests on an extensive technical record.

Car manufacturers say they believe in climate change and don't want Trump to gut the Obama administration's fuel efficiency rules.