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23 states are suing the Trump administration for weakening auto emission regulations

from Newsweek

23 states are suing the Trump administration for weakening auto emission regulations Newsweek On May 27, 23 states, 4 cities and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration accusing it of endangering public health with its rollback of the Obama-era Clean Car Standards, which sought to make cars more fuel efficient. The lawsuit, which was filed by in the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, claims that the Trump Administration's Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicle rule — a Transportation Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policy which rolled back efforts to require more miles per gallon from U.S. car manufacturers — is based on faulty science opposed by the EPA's own staff. READ MORE

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