From the New York Times: "California Strikes Back Against the Trump Administration’s Auto Pollution Rollback"

Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Contact: (916) 210-6000, agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov

Here are excerpts from a piece on California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s fight against the Trump administration’s attack on greenhouse gas emissions standards:

Last week, the Trump administration unveiled one of its most consequential environmental rollbacks yet, a plan to let cars pollute more while stripping California of its right to set its own air-quality rules.

“We’re going to do everything we must do to continue to move forward rather than backslide,” said Xavier Becerra, California’s attorney general.

“We have fires raging, hundreds of thousands of acres burning. We saw devastating flooding and mudslides six, seven months ago,” he said, invoking recent wildfires north of San Francisco that have killed seven people. “We see the havoc that climate change brings to the environment, and the last thing we need to do is to close our eyes to it.”

At stake is what could be President Trump’s biggest climate-policy rollback, a move that could, by 2035, increase United States greenhouse gas emissions by an amount that exceeds what some countries, such as Austria or Bangladesh, release in a year.

Read the full article here.

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