Former EPA official urges reliance on air act to curb vehicle GHGs

May 31, 2019
Former EPA transportation air quality chief Margo Oge is urging Congress to amend or scrap current vehicle fuel economy law -- and instead rely on the Clean Air Act (CAA) -- to curb greenhouse gases from motor vehicles, saying existing law is inadequate to the climate challenge and has been used in an attempt to block state efforts to reduce GHGs. Oge's call opens up another front in the fuel economy/GHG wars between those pushing for tough EPA and state...


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