From the staff report out today:
This threat of weakening the standards of the unified national program, left unaddressed, could substantially slow progress towards the emission reductions needed to address the serious threat climate change poses to California, the country, and the world, waste billions of gallons of gasoline, and cost consumer money on fuel. Now that U.S. EPA has stated that it intends to abandon the rigorous U.S. EPA standards the record supports, regulated entities and the public confront considerable uncertainty as to the fate of the program, undermining the goals of the unified national program to provide a clear path towards necessary pollution reductions.
Here’s the whole, feisty report:
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