The Trump administration announced that fuel-efficiency regulations for cars and light trucks are too stringent and must be revised, beginning a process sought by the U.S. auto industry to pare anti-pollution targets.
Reducing smog pollutants could avoid 3,600 premature deaths, previous estimates suggested.
As the Trump administration begins to dismantle Barack Obama’s ambitious auto efficiency regulations, California is said to be poised to retaliate by doing something that automakers have feared: de-coupling the state’s rules with those set in Washington.
The Trump administration is expected to launch an effort in coming days to weaken greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for automobiles, handing a victory to car manufacturers and giving them ammunition to potentially roll back industry standards worldwide.
Six months after unveiling its revamped battery-powered Leaf, Nissan Motor Co. is pressing ahead with plans for an array of electrified vehicles in a bid to boost sales of the cars sixfold in five years.
Last month, during a retreat in West Virginia, congressional Republicans set out their 2018 party goals.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said late on Tuesday it was proposing to cancel a planned hike in higher “gas-guzzler” penalties for automakers whose vehicles fail to meet minimum fuel-economy standards.
Royal Dutch Shell outlined a scenario in which, by 2070, we would be using far less of the company’s own product — oil — as cars become electric, a massive carbon storage industry develops, and transportation begins a shift toward a reliance on hydrogen as an energy carrier.
The plan covers 15 million acres in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming. The ruling on it is the latest to cite risks of fossil fuels and global warming.
The omens have been accumulating for months, as bits of information dribble out of the regulatory rumor mill in Washington, D.C.
