Correction Please
Proposed Easing of Obama Fuel-economy Mandates Drives Left Mad
Item: The editors of the New York Times on August 2 commented that the Trump administration’s “decision to try to weaken President Barack Obama’s landmark 2012 agreement to increase fuel efficiency and decrease global warming emissions from automobiles is dismaying on so many levels that it is hard to know where to begin.”
They went on, regardless, saying that the proposal from the Trump administration “would freeze the average fuel economy after 2021 at about 37 miles per gallon; the Obama-era rule would have required automakers to hit an average of about 54 miles per gallon by 2025. The Trump plan would also revoke a waiver that the federal government granted to California, which allows the state to set stricter standards because of its particular air pollution problems.”
The editors also tossed in this: “Cars and trucks are currently the largest source of planet-warming emissions in the United States.” The policy-change proposal, they said, “ignores, as have President Trump’s other actions, the rock-solid scientific consensus that without swift action to limit fossil fuel emissions, like those from cars, the consequences of climate change — rising seas, devastating droughts, wildfires and floods, and widespread species extinction — will get steadily worse.”
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