It looks like EPA has been pressed to deny Clean Air Act waiver requested last december. California requested to reduce vehicle greenhouse gas emissions last December and EPA turned down the request. In denying the waiver, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said that a national approach would be better and that California had not demonstrated a compelling need for the law, which would have forced automakers to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent in new cars and light trucks by 2016.
The Clean Air Act gives California special authority to regulate vehicle pollution because the state began such regulations before the federal government. But a federal waiver is required, and if California gets one, then other states can adopt California's standards, too.
Twelve other states — Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington — had adopted California's tailpipe standards and the governors of Arizona, Colorado, Florida and Utah had said they also plan to adopt them. The rules were under consideration elsewhere, too.
tag: Clean Air Act, EPA, California clean air act, vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas emissions
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