The Biden admin. plans to slowly ramp up pollution and mileage requirements for cars and trucks over the next 5 years, people with knowledge of the plan say.
Vehicles head east out of Los Angeles on the Interstate 10 freeway in Alhambra, Calif. on May 27, 2021.The Biden administration plans to slowly ramp up pollution and mileage requirements for cars and trucks over the next five years as it works to cut the biggest U.S. source of greenhouse gas emissions and hasten the shift toward electric vehicles, people with knowledge of the plan tell NBC News.
“Now is the time for strong rules, not half measures,” the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity wrote in a full-page ad Wednesday in The New York Times. “President Biden can set strong clean car standards that protect the climate – or he can hit reverse.
Obama’s rules, put in place in 2012, required a 5 percent annual increase in fuel economy standards. If the Obama rules had been left intact, they were predicted to raise mileage standards to an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by Model Year 2025, although many vehicles would likely have fallen short of that under real-world driving conditions.
Transportation, such as emissions from cars and trucks, makes up about 29 percent of U.S. emissions of heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming, according to EPA data. It’s the largest chunk of U.S. emissions, even exceeding those from generating electricity nationwide. Yet GM and other automakers have also been lobbying the Biden administration to be more lenient in setting efficiency standards for gas-guzzling vehicles in the meantime. Their argument has centered on the notion that the more they must spend in the short term to increase efficiency, the less they can spend on developing new electric models and driving down the cost, ultimately slowing the country’s shift toward electric vehicles.
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