California Upholds Auto Emissions Standards, Setting Up Face-Off With Trump -<br />By HIROKO TABUCHIMARCH 24, 2017<br />California’s clean-air agency voted on Friday to push ahead with stricter emissions standards for cars<br />and trucks, setting up a potential legal battle with the Trump administration over the state’s plan to reduce planet-warming gases.<br />After the election of Mr. Trump, a group representing the nation’s biggest makers of cars<br />and light trucks urged a reassessment of the emissions rules, which the group said posed a “substantial challenge” for the auto industry.<br />Mr. Trump, backing industry over environmental concerns, said easing emissions rules would help stimulate auto manufacturing.<br />Bonnie Holmes-Gen of the American Lung Association of California, one of many health and environmental groups<br />that spoke at the board meeting, said moving away from strict emissions standards would hurt public health and the health of the planet.<br />What was required, he said, were standards that “balance innovation, compliance and consumer needs and wants.”<br />Automakers have also been critical of a California’s zero-emission vehicle program, which requires automakers<br />to sell a certain percentage of electric cars and trucks in California and nine other states.
