Under an EPA ruling today, the State of California will be able to impose strict limits on emissions of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks.
The Bush administration had turned down a previous request from California to set its own limits on the grounds that it would impose an undue burden on car makers, which would have had to meet one set of requirements in California, and a different set in other states. Under today’s decision, the federal government will adopt California’s standards, so there will be no dichotomy — until 2017, that is, when California will be free to set even tougher standards.
See this story in the L.A. Times for a good summary of the decision, and a broader agreement the Obama administration reached with carmakers and the State of California.
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