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Trump's EPA wants to delay stronger tailpipe standards that will
cut dangerous pollution.
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Tell the EPA: Don’t Delay Clean Car Standards
Cars and trucks spew a toxic mix of pollution into our air —
pollution linked to premature death, heart attacks, and asthma.
Trump's EPA proposed a two-year delay of stronger tailpipe
standards set to go into effect by 2027 — measures that would
protect our health with proven, widely available, cost-effective
technology.
Adding insult to literal injury, the EPA's proposal
tallies up the savings for industry — $1.77 billion to be precise
— but deliberately leaves out the cost to our health. The EPA is
supposed to protect us, not polluters.
We must stand against this blatant handout to the auto industry.
Submit a public comment before July 6 opposing the EPA's plan to
delay these critical standards. ( [link removed] )
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Dear NRDC Activist,
President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set
stronger standards to make new cars run cleaner, and those
standards are beginning to go into effect. But the Trump
administration just moved to delay those standards until 2029,
buying itself time to ultimately gut the standards.
More soot. More smog. More asthma
attacks. Two years is too long for our health. Transportation is
one of the biggest sources of air pollution in the United States
— and car manufacturers need to do their part to make our air
cleaner.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Trump’s EPA is seeking to delay critical new limits to reduce
nitrogen oxide, particulate matter, and other pollutants that
spew out of tailpipes.
Why? The Trump administration claims it
is because sales of electric vehicles (EV), which have zero
emissions, have slowed down, thus making it harder for automakers
to comply because EVs count towards their overall compliance
obligations. But that slowdown is the administration's own doing.
They killed EV tax credits, rolled back clean car rules, and
moved to block state standards — then pointed to slower EV sales
as the reason to let gas-powered cars pollute more.
And what’s more, automakers don't need EVs to comply. They just
need the EPA to stop giving them a free pass to keep polluting.
There is no reason to delay, considering:
* The technology to build cleaner gas-powered cars that comply
with the Biden EPA standards has existed for years
* That technology costs less than one percent of a vehicle’s
price
* Automakers have had plenty of time to comply with these
standards, which have been on the books for years
Submit a public comment opposing the
EPA’s cynical plan to lock us into a cycle of dirty air by
delaying critical emissions standards for cars and trucks. ( [link removed]- )
WHAT'S AT STAKE
Every gas and diesel car and truck on the road pumps out a
mix of pollutants — soot, smog-forming gases, toxic chemicals
like benzene and formaldehyde. Breathing it causes premature
deaths, heart attacks, strokes, and asthma attacks. And it hits
hardest for the millions of people who live and work near busy
roads.
Over the life of these standards, the EPA's own modeling shows
they'd prevent millions of tons of pollution — blocking millions
of asthma attacks, thousands of hospitalizations, and hundreds of
premature deaths. And they'd matter most in the communities that
bear the heaviest burden: the neighborhoods along major highways
and transportation corridors, which are disproportionately
low-income communities and communities of color.
Delaying clean cars standards means more polluted
air in the communities breathing the most of it. Submit a public
comment before July 6 to help us fight back. ( [link removed] )
WHY IT MATTERS
Here's the part that should make your
blood boil. In the same proposal, the EPA carefully calculated
the savings for the auto industry: roughly $1.77 billion. But
when it came to calculating the costs to human health from the
added soot and smog, the asthma attacks, the hospital visits, and
the premature deaths, it simply declined to do the math. No air
quality modeling. No estimate of the health toll. Just a vague
note that, sure, pollution will go up.
The EPA is supposed to protect the environment (it’s in the
name!), but it chose otherwise. The agency’s own scientists have
spent decades documenting how this exact pollution harms people;
yet the EPA put a dollar figure on industry's convenience and
left the human cost blank on purpose. That's not protecting the
public. That's protecting polluters.
Tell the EPA to implement pollution standards
that protect our health and environment — not industry profits. ( [link removed] )
WHAT NRDC IS DOING
NRDC is fighting this delay on every front. Our attorneys and
policy experts are preparing detailed comments dismantling the
EPA's legal and scientific justifications for the record. We're
mobilizing tens of thousands of people like you to flood the
docket with opposition. And if the EPA finalizes this giveaway
anyway, we're prepared to challenge it in court. But the public
record matters, and that's where you come in.
ACT NOW ( [link removed] )
This is not the Trump administration’s first move against clean
cars. Last year, the EPA moved to reverse the endangerment
finding — the legal requirement for the government to protect
people from climate-busting pollutants that endanger our health
like carbon dioxide and methane — and proposed scrapping
standards that limit climate pollution from cars and trucks along
with it.
NRDC members fired back with over 56,000 public
comments. When we sued the administration in February over this
rollback, those comments helped build our case.
Now we need you to mobilize again — this time for
cleaner air. Please submit your public comment now. ( [link removed] )
Sincerely,
Atid Kimelman
Attorney, Climate and Energy, NRDC
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