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 Trump administration suspends Obama-era fuel efficiency penalties
Category:International Legal News  
Subject:System reform   ; Administrative law   ; Energy and resources   ; Legal system  
Source:THE HILL
Publish Date:07-15-2019
 

The Trump administration announced late Friday that it will formally suspend an Obama-era regulation that penalized automakers that didn't meet fuel-efficiency requirements, Reuters reports.
After Congress ordered federal agencies to adjust existing penalties in 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued rules that more than doubled fines — from $5.50 per 0.1 mile to $14 for the same distance — for automakers that consume more fuel than standards allow.
The rules issued under former President Obama called for a fuel efficiency average of 46.7 miles per gallon by 2026, while the Trump administration's rules call for 37 miles per gallon.
After automakers decried the implementation, saying it could raise compliance costs by $1 billion annually, the Trump administration began to unravel the regulation in 2018.
Despite the Trump administration's announcement, the NHTSA told Reuters in a statement that it was following Congress's initial intent to make sure the penalty rate for fuel standards was set at law-mandated levels.
New York and California are among the states that have joined environmental groups in suing the NHTSA for freezing the Obama-era rules, arguing that automakers need an incentive to make fuel-efficient vehicles.
A spokeswoman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a trade group that represents automakers such as General Motors, Volkswagen and Toyota, hailed the move on Friday.
Gloria Bergquist told Reuters that NHTSA's "own model clearly shows the significant economic harm that such a dramatic and unjustified increase in penalties would have on auto manufacturers, workers, and ultimately consumers."

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