Climate Changed
California and Carmakers ‘in Agreement’ on Emissions Standards
- Trump administration seeks to curb state’s power to set rules
- ‘Standards on the books actually should be on the books’
Mary Nichols
Photographer: Alex Flynn/Bloomberg
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California and the auto industry mostly agree that the state should maintain a role in setting vehicle emissions standards despite Trump administration efforts to curb its authority, according to the head of the California Air Resources Board.
“We are now, I think it is fair to say, in a confusing situation,” Mary Nichols said Tuesday at the Edison Electric Institute convention in San Diego. “Maybe in the first time in recorded history, California and the auto industry are mostly in agreement that standards on the books actually should be on the books, and California should have a place in implementing those standards.”