A trillion dollars worth of Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations for cars, trucks and engines will be axed this year, along with the unpopular stop-start feature in vehicles, EPA boss Lee Zeldin plans to announce Tuesday.
The EPA proposal to repeal the 2009 “Endangerment Finding” represents a major rollback of US climate action, and follows President Trump’s Day One executive order, “Unleashing American Energy.”
It will be released for public comment before going into effect later this year.
“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end 16 years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” said Zeldin. “Stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to … stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year.”
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