Submit Your Comments to Protect Clean Car Standards

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

The administration just announced its plan to attack clean car standards, and it’s going to recklessly slam the brakes on progress towards healthier air if we don’t stop it.¹

Submit your comment now at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=27904 to tell the EPA we can’t throw clean car standards into reverse.

If this rollback succeeds, it would severely weaken the biggest step the U.S. has ever taken to tackle global warming pollution from our cars’ tailpipes. It would also undo a decades-old provision of the Clean Air Act that allows stronger state-level protections from cars’ pollution, which we’ve implemented here in Pennsylvania.¹

But the EPA will have to ask the public to weigh in on this proposal first, so make your voice heard right now to help stop this attack for good. Add your comment to defend cleaner car standards today.

Every day it becomes clearer why we need cleaner cars. Our recent report, “Trouble in the Air,” found Pennsylvanians already experience hundreds of days every year when the air is unhealthy to breathe as a result of air pollution, as often as 1 in 3 days in Pittsburgh. And transportation is now the nation’s biggest source of global warming pollution, increasing the likelihood of more deadly heat waves and destructive flash floods from extreme storms like we’ve seen here in Pennsylvania just this summer.^{2 3}

As companies like Tesla and GM invest billions in cleaner electric vehicles, it’s clear we’re ready to change the future of transportation. But we need the cleaner car standards to ensure we keep driving forward.⁴

Tell the EPA we can’t turn back clean air protections—keep the clean car standards running.

Now that the attack on these standards is open for public comment, we need a rush of support from people like you to make it clear that the majority of Americans want to drive cleaner, more efficient cars that will leave our air clearer and our climate safer. So get revved up to protect our climate, and start by submitting your comment today.

1. Brady Dennis, Michael Laris, & Juliet Eilperin, “Trump administration to freeze fuel efficiency requirements,” The Washington Post, August 2, 2018.
2. Elizabeth Ridlington & Christy Leavitt, “Trouble in the Air,” PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, July 12, 2018.
3. David Roberts, “The US is winning the climate fight in electricity — and losing it just about everywhere else,” Vox, April 10, 2018.
4. David Shepardson, “S. to propose revoking California authority to set auto emissions rules: source,” Reuters, July 23, 2018.