Just two months after taking office, President Donald Trump in March 2017 traveled to Michigan to announce that he would undo ambitious vehicle ...
Just two months after taking office, President Donald Trump in March 2017 traveled to Michigan to announce that he would undo ambitious vehicle emissions standards mandated under his predecessor Barack Obama, portraying the reversal as a boost to the U.S. auto industry centered in the Midwestern state.
The challengers getting ready to sue - a coalition of more than 20 Democratic-led states as well as environmental groups - are planning to target much of the analysis and underlying assumptions used by the administration in crafting the plan, which ditches the Obama-era requirement of 5per cent annual increases in efficiency for cars and trucks through 2026 in favor of 1.5per cent annual increases.
Trump's administration, which has erased a series of Obama-era environmental initiatives that it deemed burdensome to industry, said the new rules will result in about 2 billion additional barrels of oil being consumed and 867 to 923 additional million metric tons of carbon dioxide being emitted.They must decide whether to intervene and, if so, on which side.
"Basically the automakers have to be living under a lot of uncertainty over the outcome," said David Doniger, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council environmental group."If I were in their shoes, I would say you don't have a very secure basis for relying on this rule."
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