California Sets Demands for Auto-Emission Talks With Trump
- State may be open to discuss 2025 goals with feds, carmakers
- Tough 2030 rules have to be on table, state regulator says
Pipework sits on the diesel engine of a Volkswagen AG (VW) Passat automobile in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Volkswagen is grappling with an emissions scandal on three fronts: cheating software installed in about 11 million vehicles worldwide with 1.2-, 1.6- and 2.0-liter engines; irregular carbon dioxide ratings on about 800,000 vehicles in Europe; and questionable emissions software in about 85,000 VW, Audi and Porsche vehicles with 3.0-liter diesel engines in the U.S.
Photographer: Miles Willis/BloombergCalifornia may re-open discussions on its greenhouse gas limits for cars and trucks for 2025, so long as automakers and the Trump administration embrace significantly tougher targets the state is seeking for later years.
Automakers have “a whole laundry list of things they’ve asked for” to ease the state’s standards leading up to 2025, and California is willing to at least discuss reviving talks, Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, said in an interview Friday at Bloomberg News headquarters in New York. Michael Catanzaro, a White House special assistant, called her recently to get conversations with the administration started, she said.