Advocates Tout Looming Vehicle GHG Standards, Even With Weaker Limits

Environmentalists and former EPA officials are touting the agency’s imminent light- and medium-duty vehicle emissions rule as historic, even if the agency as expected finalizes weaker near-term greenhouse gas standards than proposed in an attempt to secure some industry backing for the measure. “At the end of the day, this country should be extraordinarily proud of where we are going to end up” with the rule, said former EPA transportation air quality official Margo Oge, who is now advising several...