Washington, DC -- Today, the Sierra Club, along with environmental and consumer advocacy organizations and millions of Americans, submitted extensive comments on the Trump Administration’s proposed rollback of the clean car standards. The current car standards, agreed to under the Obama Administration, were part of a deal between automakers, NHTSA, EPA, and the California Air Resources Board, with buy-in from labor unions and environmental groups.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Donald Trump is expected to announce that he is disregarding the Clean Air Act to allow the year-round sale of 15-percent ethanol blends in gasoline. This comes just before Trump leaves for a day-long campaign event in Iowa, and after Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley pushed through Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
Dearborn, MI -- Today, citizens from across Michigan voiced their opposition to Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s and NHSTA’s Acting Administrator King proposed rollback of the clean car standards at a public hearing. Hundreds of Michiganders attended, including former EPA and auto industry employees, speaking out strongly in support of the standards.
DEARBORN, MI -- Shortly before the start of today’s federal public hearing on a proposed rollback of the clean car standards, Sierra Club and Public Citizen delivered a wake-up call to Ford – literally – that working with the Trump administration to put the standards in reverse is unacceptable.With an installation of several dozen vintage-style alarm clocks, the groups sounded the alarm that it is past time for Ford to stand with American families and dump the Trump rollback.
FRESNO, CA -- Today, citizens from across California voiced their opposition to Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s and NHSTA’s Acting Administrator King proposed rollback of the clean car standards at a public hearing. Hundreds of Californians attended, including former EPA and auto industry employees, speaking out strongly in support of the standards.
WHAT: Press conference with dial-in option and display outside a federal hearing at which activists will call on Ford to support the clean car standards, also known as fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards. As part of the White House’s planned rollback of the standards, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are holding a hearing in Dearborn, Mich., on Tuesday to hear public opinion.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, WIRED Magazine reported that the City of Los Angeles and 29 other cities across the country have joined together to collectively work towards electrifying their vehicle fleets. All told, the cities own more than 115,000 vehicles, with an estimated value of $10 billion according to the report.
WASHINGTON, DC — Over the last seven years, National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) has inspired drivers to kick gas, and as the eighth annual NDEW launches today, it boasts more events than ever before. There are more than 320 events registered in all 50 states and several countries that feature plug-in electric vehicles (EVs). Through test drives, parades, news conferences, and announcements of new EV policies and programs, NDEW community events demonstrate how EVs are cleaner, cheaper, and more fun to operate than vehicles powered by fossil fuels.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Bloomberg reported that internal emails from the Trump Administration showed experts at the Environmental Protection Agency told the Department of Transportation that rolling back the Obama era clean car standards would increase highway deaths.
Yesterday, Donald Trump and his Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler leveled the single biggest assault against our climate and clean air in US history. The backlash and response has been swift. Here’s a bit of what people are saying: It’ll worsen public health, national security.