Health Groups Seek Criteria Pollution Focus In Upcoming EPA Auto Rule

Environmental and public health groups are ramping up calls for EPA to assume significant electrification in its upcoming passenger vehicle multi-pollutant standards while still requiring air emissions cuts from conventional vehicles, including one group’s request for fine particle standards that would require technology already in European and Chinese vehicles. The advocacy, detailed in a flurry of recent meetings with White House and EPA officials on the draft proposal, comes amid expectations that the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) will...