Tell Congress to Protect the Clean Car Standards

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

If this summer felt especially brutal, it wasn’t your imagination: It was the hottest summer on record for the Northern Hemisphere — tied with 2016.¹

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan that would make the climate crisis even worse: By blocking states from setting strong vehicle emissions standards, the plan would mean more carbon pollution in our atmosphere.

Go to https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=35069 to tell Congress: Stand up for our climate and our air by protecting Clean Car standards.

Extreme heat like we had this summer will become the new normal — along with more fires, storms, extreme weather and wildlife habitat loss — if we don’t act quickly to slow global warming.²

And there’s no way to solve this crisis without cutting pollution from cars and trucks.

Carbon emissions from transportation are the single largest contributor to global warming pollution in the U.S., and that’s why state Clean Car standards are so critical to our work to avoid climate catastrophe.³

For decades, states have had the ability to set standards of their own if the federal standards weren’t strong enough — something that California has long done, leading 13 other states and Washington, D.C., to adopt the California standards.

Now, not only is the Trump administration proposing to roll back the federal standards, it is also acting to block states from setting their own, stronger standards.

We need to do everything we can to stop this rollback, and we need every ally who will stand with us. Join us in calling on your U.S. House representative to speak up for these vital Clean Car standards.

With the climate changing fast, we just don’t have time to lose the progress we’ve already made.

Thank you for standing up for our climate.

1. “Summer 2019 was hottest on record for Northern Hemisphere,” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, September 16, 2019.
   2. Coral Davenport & Kendra Pierre-Louis, “U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy,” The New York Times, November 23, 2018.
   3. “Power plants are no longer America’s biggest climate problem. Transportation is.,” Vox, June 13, 2016.