Looking Under the Hood of Biden’s New Clean Car Standards

摘要

NYU Law Professor Richard L. Revesz examines the EPA’s proposed rule to strengthen greenhouse gas standards for passenger cars and light trucks. The Biden administration’s goals arefar from ambitious, but are noteworthy for restoring analytical credibility and paving the way for considerably more stringent standards in future years, he says.The Environmental Protection Agency’s Aug. 10 proposed rule strengthens the greenhouse gas standards for light-duty vehicles (passenger cars and light trucks). The new proposal wouldundo part of the damage done by the Trump administration’s so-called SAFE rule, which significantly weakened the Obama administration’s standards for model years 2021 through 2025and set forth a meager standard for model year 2026.