WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is restoring California’s authority to set its own exhaust pollution standards for cars, reversing Trump administration policy and potentially opening up stricter regulations. tighter emission standards for new generation passenger cars nationwide.
An exemption was approved on Wednesday by I have to go to school every day allow California to pose difficulties emissions the rules for cars and SUVs impose mandatory regulations on so-called zero-emissions vehicles that do not contribute to global warming.
At least 15 states and the District of Columbia have signed on to California’s vehicle standards, which are stricter than federal rules and designed to address the state’s severe air pollution problems. According to the American Lung Association, seven out of 10 US cities with the worst ozone pollution are in California, along with six of the 10 most polluted cities as measured by year-round particulate pollution.
2019 decision of former President Donald Trump repeal California’s authority to set its own limits on auto emissions is one of his most famous acts to reinstate environmental rules that he considers too burdensome for businesses. Vehicle emission regulation is the focus to combat climate change.
President Joe Biden has made slowing climate change a top priority for his administration. Transportation is the largest source of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for 29% of all emissions. In the transportation sector, passenger cars and trucks are the largest contributors, accounting for 58% of total transportation-related emissions and 17% of total US carbon emissions.
“Today, we are proud to reaffirm California’s longstanding authority to lead the way in tackling auto and truck pollution,” said the statement. EPA Administrator Michael Regan. “With today’s action, we restore an approach that for years has helped improve clean technology and cut air pollution for people not just in California but for the entire United States.”
The waiver restores California’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the federal Clean Air Act for model years 2017 through 2025, effective immediately. The California Air Resources Board will determine how the standards will be implemented and enforced.
The waiver also retracts a Trump-era rule that has prevented other states from adopting California’s standards. Collectively, they represent 36% of the US auto market.
Officials in California, New York and other states have seek the recovery of renunciation, said California’s stringent standards have improved air quality in the state and ensured that Los Angeles and other cities are no longer covered with smog.
At a public hearing last year, California Attorney General Rob Bonta called the state’s vehicle emissions standards “critical to the fight against climate change” and critical to improving air quality, protect public health and promote technological innovation.
Harold Winner, president and chief executive officer of the lung association, said the EPA’s decision to reinstate California’s standards “is a victory for public health, for the No. clean air and for the rights of the states.
Wimmer added: “Climate change is a health emergency. From deteriorating air quality due to wildfire smoke to increasing ground-level ozone, to smog caused by carbon pollution, “climate change is taking a toll on the health of people across the country,” he said. speak.
New bipartisan infrastructure law includes 500,000 new charging stations for Electric Car and trucks. Full tramor EV, representing only 2% belong to new vehicle sales in the US, but analysts expect that number to grow rapidly in the coming years. Major auto manufacturers, including Synthetic engine and Fordis committing billions of dollars to developing electric vehicles and GM went so far as to announce a goal to completely phase out gasoline-powered passenger transport by 2035.
The EPA in December raised mileage standards to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reversing a throwback to a time when Trump eased energy saving standard.
The EPA rule elevates mileage standards starting in the 2023 model year, hitting a projected industry-wide target of 40 mph by 2026. The new standard is 25% higher than the one approved by the administration. Trump completes and is 5% higher than the previous rule proposed by the Biden EPA.
Biden’s sweeping environmental and social policy bill – stalled for months in the Senate – includes a $7,500 tax credit for buyers to reduce the cost of electric vehicles.
While welcoming the restoration of the waivers, environmental and public health groups said it has now reached California Governor Gavin Newsom to impose strict regulations on emissions from cars and SUVs.
“Now that he has his keys back, Governor Newsom needs to direct California as strongly as possible clean car Scott Hochberg, an attorney at the Center for Biodiversity, said.
Besides New York, other states that followed California rule included Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Several other states are moving to adopt the California standard.
Trump’s move to revoke state waivers has divided the industry, with most automakers behind him while Ford, Honda’s motobike, BMW carVolkswagen and Volvo decided to go with California standards. After Biden was inaugurated, General Motors and other automakers supported California setting its own standards.
California Exemption Restoration Launched as Biden Administration propose stronger pollution regulations for new tractors The rigs will clean up smoky diesel engines and encourage new technologies over the next two decades. A proposal released by the EPA on Monday would require industry to cut smoke- and soot-generating nitrous oxide emissions per truck by up to 90 percent from current standards by 2031. can cause respiratory problems in humans.
New regulations will begin in 2027 to limit emissions from nearly 27 million heavy-duty trucks and buses nationwide.
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Associated Press writer Tom Krisher in Detroit contributed to this story.
