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EPA Poised to Revisit Fuel Economy Targets Beyond 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected this week to reopen a decision two months ago that carmakers must achieve average fuel economy levels above 50 mpg by 2025.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected this week to reopen a decision two months ago that carmakers must achieve average fuel economy levels above 50 mpg by 2025.
EPA and carmakers agreed to that goal in 2011 under the pro-regulation Obama administration. But the agency also said it would conduct a feasibility review no later than April 2018.
EPA completed that assessment and affirmed the original standard just days before Donald Trump, who has described the agency as “out of control,” took office in January. Trump’s EPA chief Scott Pruett has said he would review recent agency policies and the fuel economy ruling.
Carmakers asked the Trump administration last month to do just that. They say the rapid rise in annual fuel economy averages dictated between 2022 and 2025 is unrealistic and overly costly. Manufacturers also complain of regulatory contradictions between federal fuel economy and exhaust emission laws.
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