Tomorrow, President Trump is expected to sign an executive order instructing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to begin rolling back clean car standards. The administration will likely withdraw the final determination on EPA’s vehicle emission standards for 2022-2025.
Due to overwhelming public support, the Clean Water Rule has now withstood every attack that polluters could muster in Congress - the Barrasso bill, the CRA measure, and now an attempted budget rider. Polluters and their allies have played all their dirty water cards in Congress and lost.
As Michigan residents get ready for summer road trips, an Environment Michigan Research & Policy Center report finds that cleaner, more fuel efficient cars would significantly slash oil consumption and global warming pollution across the state.
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