Final Auto GHG Rollback To Include Various Compliance ‘Flexibilities’

The Trump administration’s imminent rollback of Obama-era auto greenhouse gas rules will embrace several regulatory flexibilities the agencies originally proposed to jettison -- though it is likely to end “multiplier” credits for electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrids while extending them for natural gas vehicles, sources say. Poised to be completed March 31, the long-awaited rulemaking is widely expected to require a 1.5 percent annual vehicle mileage improvement, though some indicate the on-the-ground stringency could be even less when accounting...