Climate Progress Stalls Again, Thanks to Trump’s New Auto Rules
By Daniel F. Becker and James Gerstenzang, Safe Climate Campaign
April 1, 2020
President Trump’s rollback on Tuesday of stringent automobile mileage and emissions standards torpedoes the biggest single step any nation has taken to fight the climate crisis. In dispensing with Obama-era rules in the name of imaginary regulatory reform, he will damage the health of the planet, our pocketbooks and even the very auto industry he thinks will benefit.
The Obama administration set the standards in 2012 to cut emissions and improve gas mileage roughly 5 percent a year from 2021 to 2025. Thirteen automakers agreed to them.
Now Mr. Trump’s decision will slash….
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President Trump’s attack on California’s long-established authority to set air pollution rules stronger than those of the federal government means we’ll see fewer clean cars and more pollution-spewing Trumpmobiles. We can almost hear the chant from the Oval Office: “Make America Polluted Again.”
Relying on a legal theory rejected by two federal courts, the administration claims, in effect, that California never had the authority to set its own standard — a standard that 13 other states have followed — in the first place. Never mind that…
Failure of will:
Renewable energy sources and other solutions are available. Technologically speaking, #climate change is neither insurmountable nor unaffordable. It’s the politics that have fallen short. -@pfairley
https://www.invw.org/2021/01/11/how-climate-action-fizzled-in-cascadia/
The Big Melt!
The Arctic is changing faster than any environment on Earth. The old order is being swept away, leaving scientists to ask: What’s coming in its place?
-@BenBendeac
We have solutions to protect our #Climate: #CleanerCars!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-13/regime-shift-is-taking-place-as-arctic-sea-ice-melts/12956328?nw=0
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