Trump Revives Auto Efficiency Debate With Pledge to Slash Rules
- Automakers see opportunity to ease fuel-economy standards
- California regulators could be wild card in negotiations
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President Donald Trump’s pledge to ease environmental regulations hands automakers a second chance to amend the U.S. vehicle efficiency standards that the Obama administration sought to finalize in its final days.
In a White House meeting Tuesday with the chief executives of General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, Trump called environmental regulations "out of control." That re-opened a debate automakers say was unfairly cut short when President Barack Obama issued a final determination on greenhouse gas emissions standards through model year 2025 a week before Trump’s inauguration.