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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">G</font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">reat: major automakers and California defy Trump rollback, make an agreement to curb auto pollution</span></b></div><ul style="margin: 1em 0px;"><li style="margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, and BMW “have struck a deal with California to reduce tailpipe pollution,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” </span><a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkE1uxCAMhU8z7Igg_yxYtFV7jYiAJ0MDJALTKLcvyUjItp6F3vOnFcKyxVPuW0KSE8TJGlkPPROCESNbw8duJDZNzwjglXUSYway59lZrdBu4f7A-Ehe0kALM4iZ91qIxsxz0w_c1ONTdz0XLSeXy6SysRA0SPiDeG4BiJMvxD09mo9H_VPecRxVONF6SJXefFGKgSiNDdfclaKd9SV7mVTGzasVYqIRfkGjDQstIf1O9825fGWkMTugCaNdgSpqQDl6WHxRrZx9bjFYVb3QO2KvUwQb6p61jDNW8WpoPodRfH2Kbujr7657tMwvdZXynFDp9QpIotwVer3ypmyXC9MtF0pT6T4Hi-cEQc0OzBsgvonfQPDcQQY4kgNEiG-xUBVNOw6kGJlyoA0Fb4Qlu5t6uOs_BwSZBA" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkE1uxCAMhU8z7Igg_yxYtFV7jYiAJ0MDJALTKLcvyUjItp6F3vOnFcKyxVPuW0KSE8TJGlkPPROCESNbw8duJDZNzwjglXUSYway59lZrdBu4f7A-Ehe0kALM4iZ91qIxsxz0w_c1ONTdz0XLSeXy6SysRA0SPiDeG4BiJMvxD09mo9H_VPecRxVONF6SJXefFGKgSiNDdfclaKd9SV7mVTGzasVYqIRfkGjDQstIf1O9825fGWkMTugCaNdgSpqQDl6WHxRrZx9bjFYVb3QO2KvUwQb6p61jDNW8WpoPodRfH2Kbujr7657tMwvdZXynFDp9QpIotwVer3ypmyXC9MtF0pT6T4Hi-cEQc0OzBsgvonfQPDcQQY4kgNEiG-xUBVNOw6kGJlyoA0Fb4Qlu5t6uOs_BwSZBA&source=gmail&ust=1564250470048000&usg=AFQjCNEbpsNU0WYX9PjMFPr4x3t0UVWHxw" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">reports The New York Times</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, side-stepping the Trump rollback of strong Obama-era standards.</span></font></p></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The deal will create “much-needed regulatory certainty,” the automakers say, and avoid “a patchwork of regulations while continuing to ensure meaningful greenhouse gas emissions reductions.”</font></p></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The automakers are referring to two things here:</font></p><ul style="margin: 1em 0px;"><li style="margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lawsuit that over a dozen states and DC filed last year, charging that Trump arbitrarily and capriciously junked the Obama-era standards.</font></p></li><li style="margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Trump EPA’s stated intention to revoke California’s power (written into the Clean Air Act) to set its own standards, which the state has vowed to fight.</font></p></li></ul></li></ul><ul style="margin: 1em 0px;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California is now calling on more automakers to join the deal.</font></p></li><li style="margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Under the deal, cars and light trucks sold in California will need to get about 51 miles per gallon by 2026, rather than the 52.5 mpg by 2025 established in the Obama standard.</font></p></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Automakers will also receive additional compliance credits for selling electric vehicles under the plan, among other revisions, the state’s air pollution regulator said,” <a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkMuu4yAQRL8m7LDAjo29YHFzNfMbFo-Og8LDgmas_P1gR0I0FEJVdYxC2FL-yD0VJLVAXp2VvZjYsjBi5d3yeZyJK-szAwTlvMRcgexVe2cUuhSvD4zP5CVtrxVXAtQ0WhiH58KE5ZwNetSC64mR02VV1TqIBiT8g_xJEYiXL8S93IafW-3reM4Ou1TChry1pkUmhbhKG2ojM54OI_NdKFM0H5sF-02qiqmoN6QC9XVvGlLGna6exXp4fBFjfLumXJ0ikJwpbTwhe7KIHFng5a2n9idccY63onhIebl97GMYur_jOPtzsLWd6Xqgsq8z1Qky11hMG8-tNftpHPJDc7aZqjR4WeFqLQH--WGX9AXB_zsIM9aHhAhf8UGcxnusyDNyLY2LkoLGbbqL9jx2v8DiZ-Vlw" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkMuu4yAQRL8m7LDAjo29YHFzNfMbFo-Og8LDgmas_P1gR0I0FEJVdYxC2FL-yD0VJLVAXp2VvZjYsjBi5d3yeZyJK-szAwTlvMRcgexVe2cUuhSvD4zP5CVtrxVXAtQ0WhiH58KE5ZwNetSC64mR02VV1TqIBiT8g_xJEYiXL8S93IafW-3reM4Ou1TChry1pkUmhbhKG2ojM54OI_NdKFM0H5sF-02qiqmoN6QC9XVvGlLGna6exXp4fBFjfLumXJ0ikJwpbTwhe7KIHFng5a2n9idccY63onhIebl97GMYur_jOPtzsLWd6Xqgsq8z1Qky11hMG8-tNftpHPJDc7aZqjR4WeFqLQH--WGX9AXB_zsIM9aHhAhf8UGcxnusyDNyLY2LkoLGbbqL9jx2v8DiZ-Vlw&source=gmail&ust=1564250470048000&usg=AFQjCNEv8_lR1fSwQgFowgaMA2syu8511w">according to Bloomberg News.</a></font></p></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Some environmental groups criticized the slower pace and expanded loopholes the deal awarded the automakers,” The Times reports.</font></p></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But it’s considerably stronger than what the Trump administration intends: freezing the tailpipe standard at its 2021 level of 37 mpg.</font></p></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The EPA called the deal a ‘stunt,”, <a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkMuOhCAQRb-m2WFQRGTBYnoy8xsGobRJ8zCAY_z7QTshVHFv6sHRqsAa0ym3mAvaM6TJGtnxgQhBkJG9aUc2IpunJQF4ZZ0saQe07bOzWhUbw11A2hG95LD0XFDQiyCM0V4vgxpNz4yiQs-CDuiaMqndWAgaJPxBOmMA5OSrlC0_6Nej-63nOI6mvC57hUZHX6U6QdTAr5Tdb97xbmhrWhfyGwZvc67rZJyic7PSb7zEZPBfdO98qDUG_IrBKDz7A2vlbHWDVdiAcshePxC15UB60hLStA2nTz6K76dgfOh-GHv0xK9dk_c5l9r8Wgsluani9bul1V0vOrdc4Uw1-j3Yck4Q1OzAfLiVD-ibQzk3kAGO7KAUSB-xwhS0Hzmqg0ysLYM0kGDd3Q073Pc_qR6T0g" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkMuOhCAQRb-m2WFQRGTBYnoy8xsGobRJ8zCAY_z7QTshVHFv6sHRqsAa0ym3mAvaM6TJGtnxgQhBkJG9aUc2IpunJQF4ZZ0saQe07bOzWhUbw11A2hG95LD0XFDQiyCM0V4vgxpNz4yiQs-CDuiaMqndWAgaJPxBOmMA5OSrlC0_6Nej-63nOI6mvC57hUZHX6U6QdTAr5Tdb97xbmhrWhfyGwZvc67rZJyic7PSb7zEZPBfdO98qDUG_IrBKDz7A2vlbHWDVdiAcshePxC15UB60hLStA2nTz6K76dgfOh-GHv0xK9dk_c5l9r8Wgsluani9bul1V0vOrdc4Uw1-j3Yck4Q1OzAfLiVD-ibQzk3kAGO7KAUSB-xwhS0Hzmqg0ysLYM0kGDd3Q073Pc_qR6T0g&source=gmail&ust=1564250470048000&usg=AFQjCNG_VmKxFLOaDctlVL9PZr8iULtT1A">reports The Verge</a>, “and said it won’t change the administration’s rollback plans.”</font></p></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Background:</font></p><ul style="margin: 1em 0px;"><li style="margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s EPA and Department of Transportation announced their plan to replace the Obama-era standards a year ago, “with only desultory gestures at justification,” <a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkNuOhCAMhp9muNOAqOgFFzub3dcwCB2HjIDhMK5vv9VJKKX90wOfVhmWEA-5hZRJSRAna2QjejqOlBjZGjZ0A7FpekQAp-wqcyxAtjKvVqtsg78KKBvIUyo-MEU5tCAeWom2o7oZBDUGZiF6zsk5ZVLFWPAaJLwhHsEDWeUz5y3d-Net-cWz73v9Dn-1Dg4j8BCXo1LeVODfNgbvwGcUzqnoOjSOxgRnLaUUn7ij2yrYVKVVTBWG-pWqR4G1Ah18cAcKD6hSxq4qmkTs-YeRiqanLWWU1qwW_C6G8fs-dqJvfrru1lK3NHUqM5bp17kdiXJT2ekX46guJ58rjXgm9K54m48JvJpXMB9y-YP6IpGPDaSHPa2QM8RPEnGOvB0EwUEmYEsvDURYynrh9tf9D62OlBA" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkNuOhCAMhp9muNOAqOgFFzub3dcwCB2HjIDhMK5vv9VJKKX90wOfVhmWEA-5hZRJSRAna2QjejqOlBjZGjZ0A7FpekQAp-wqcyxAtjKvVqtsg78KKBvIUyo-MEU5tCAeWom2o7oZBDUGZiF6zsk5ZVLFWPAaJLwhHsEDWeUz5y3d-Net-cWz73v9Dn-1Dg4j8BCXo1LeVODfNgbvwGcUzqnoOjSOxgRnLaUUn7ij2yrYVKVVTBWG-pWqR4G1Ah18cAcKD6hSxq4qmkTs-YeRiqanLWWU1qwW_C6G8fs-dqJvfrru1lK3NHUqM5bp17kdiXJT2ekX46guJ58rjXgm9K54m48JvJpXMB9y-YP6IpGPDaSHPa2QM8RPEnGOvB0EwUEmYEsvDURYynrh9tf9D62OlBA&source=gmail&ust=1564250470048000&usg=AFQjCNFkI28hCxuBxwXLnEut0HD2BMptlQ">as Vox wrote at the time.</a></font></p></li><li style="margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The auto industry, fearing the regulatory chaos that years of litigation over the rollback will cause, wrote directly to the president to urge him to roll back the rollback, <a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJw1UctuxCAM_Jrllgjy5sChW7W_ERHwpmiBRDwa5e9rElVCjGwz9nhQMsG6hVPsW0wkRwiz0aIZB8o5JVp0mk39REycXwHASWNFChnInhdrlExm8xeBson8CNlwSRXTXaORv0ADsuvVgqdj9EVfpEyZZdYGvAIBvxDOzQOx4ielPT7aj0fzjec4jrrM22u1OYxjQomIDh8XVDJEhBU8BGkrt2G9JFAGR6DD_yVz2px8Q4gVynZ7hQ0qf8kuPGNBrlDtm7W55KqYpNcyaKSydmxb3lHKMCCmrMjp2Ay0o4zSmtVj-xwn_vnk_Tg0X33_6KhbmzrmBbuod5FOgthlcurNWqyuxb4rje7NiC57k84ZvFws6NvYdP_EZVQ6dxAejmghJQh3Et3mbTeNBAdpXM54oSHAmu211r3cHx6Inrw" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJw1UctuxCAM_Jrllgjy5sChW7W_ERHwpmiBRDwa5e9rElVCjGwz9nhQMsG6hVPsW0wkRwiz0aIZB8o5JVp0mk39REycXwHASWNFChnInhdrlExm8xeBson8CNlwSRXTXaORv0ADsuvVgqdj9EVfpEyZZdYGvAIBvxDOzQOx4ielPT7aj0fzjec4jrrM22u1OYxjQomIDh8XVDJEhBU8BGkrt2G9JFAGR6DD_yVz2px8Q4gVynZ7hQ0qf8kuPGNBrlDtm7W55KqYpNcyaKSydmxb3lHKMCCmrMjp2Ay0o4zSmtVj-xwn_vnk_Tg0X33_6KhbmzrmBbuod5FOgthlcurNWqyuxb4rje7NiC57k84ZvFws6NvYdP_EZVQ6dxAejmghJQh3Et3mbTeNBAdpXM54oSHAmu211r3cHx6Inrw&source=gmail&ust=1564250470050000&usg=AFQjCNHt03UpDD9rmoFmoz0pNXNPjQNFwg">as The Detroit Free Press reported in June</a>.</font></p></li></ul></li></ul><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div>