California Regulator Threatens Trump With Gasoline-Engine Ban

摘要

One of California’s top environmental regulators is threatening to enact tougher pollution rules that could include a ban vehicles that run on petroleum-based fuels in retaliation for the Trump administration’s plan to relax vehicle emission standards. The move -- which would be a increase uncertainty for carmakers in the nation’s biggest auto market. California has already gone to court to ’s determination that current vehicle emission and fuel economy standards were too stringent. Now, California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols is arguing that the state will match any relaxation of federal auto rules with its own more stringent anti-pollution requirements on everything from fuel to the re producing it. “CARB will be exploring ways to ensure communities get the reductions of air pollution they so desperately need to keep the air clean and breathable -- and continue to ” Nichols said in draft remarks prepared for an event May 16. “That might mean, for example, tougher requirements for low-carbon fuels, looking at tighter health-protective regulations on California refiorts on mobile and stationary sources -- and might lead to an outright ban on internal combustion engines.”