Climate Changed
Trump Ups the Ante in Feud With California Over Car Emissions
- Justice Department asks automakers about emissions agreement
- EPA, DOT warns state it may be violating federal law with deal
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The Trump administration has launched a multipronged legal assault on an agreement California struck with four carmakers in defiance of the president’s plan to ease national standards on tailpipe emissions.
Lawyers from the Transportation Department and Environmental Protection Agency on Friday sent a to California’s top air-pollution regulator, urging the state to abandon its pact with the automakers and warning that actions to carry out the agreement “appear to be unlawful and invalid.”