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Senior EPA Official to Retire
Margo Oge, director of the U.S.
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Margo Oge, director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Transportation and Air Quality, will step down on Sept. 30 after 32 years at the agency.
Oge tells Automotive News she planned to relax for a few months and "dive into new challenges" next year.
She oversaw the enacting of the agency's first greenhouse gas emissions regulations for passenger and commercial vehicles. Oge also was one of the top officials involved in setting new fuel economy standards for 2012-2025.
In the summer of 2011, she helped broker a deal among the White House, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, environmentalists, automakers and California clean-air officials. The resulting agreement constituted a broad consensus on the second phase of fuel economy rules, which begins in 2017.
Those standards, which were finalized last week, will nearly double fuel economy requirements for light vehicles sold in the U.S. to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
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