The decision by Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt to revoke standards that require cars and light trucks to be cleaner and more fuel efficient is a potential setback to the progress we’ve made along the Wasatch Front to improve air quality and protect Utahns’ health.
Pruitt’s move to re-write the nation’s first-ever carbon limits on cars and SUVs takes us in the wrong direction and wreaks havoc on years of bipartisan progress towards cleaner air.
We know that the biggest source of small particulate pollution that fouls the air during winter inversions is our vehicles. State air quality plans for future improvement depend – in part – on higher Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards that increase vehicle efficiency and get more miles per gallon across the fleet of vehicles sold.