Feds Meets In California To Discuss Single Set Of Emission Rules

Senior U.S. government officials held talks in recent weeks with California's Air Resources Board to discuss the goal of maintaining one set of national requirements for automakers, a move that will determine the fate of vehicle emissions rules.

The Dec. 15 meeting held in California included William Wehrum, head of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration deputy chief Heidi King, and Mike Catanzaro, a senior White House aide on environment and energy issues, a spokesman for CARB confirmed on Monday.

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SanJoseDriver - 1/9/2018 12:26:35 PM

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California is obviously not going to back down from stricter emission standards. I don't think the EPA will cave either, so we're going to end up with 2 standards.

TheSteve - 1/9/2018 2:56:59 PM

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Oh, oh! California wants to be "too clean!"

California has serious pollution issues, especially in the Los Angeles basin area where geography, climate, and pollution all conspire to concentrate air pollution to extra high levels. California knows this, and wants to address it. They also have a fair bit of well-intentioned people who want to lower pollution overall, and are working to make this happen.

Unfortunately, as they are working details out, some decisions are made in which the economically challenged (yeah, not all Californians are rich) are squeezed ever more in the form of high electricity costs, etc.

CA has their problems, and they're working to clean them up. You have to give them credit for constantly trying, and overall, making progress (even though some folks are hurting along the way). Keep this in mind when governments and lobbyists spin this as needing "one standard," and the proposed solution is federal laws that prohibit California from being as clean as they want to be.

MDarringer - 1/9/2018 6:41:53 PM

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States should NOT have the autonomy to set different standards. California needs to be sued for violating federal law in essence.

SanJoseDriver - 1/23/2018 1:10:37 AM

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The Federal law should dictate the minimum standard, with states having the option to go beyond that if they so choose.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 1/9/2018 9:45:33 PM

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Last time I checked California was one of the most populated US States and has the world's 6th largest economy with a $2.4T GDP. Good luck with forcing California to budge on this issue or any other.