Hours after being sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy took aim at the main way the federal government regulates miles per gallon for cars and pickup trucks — also a principal way that it regulates air pollution and addresses climate change.
From national security to home insurance, the president has quickly changed America’s climate adaptation policies in important ways.
Newly appointed Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy wasted no time in rolling back U.S. fuel efficiency regulations.
A signed order by Sean Duffy, U.S. Transportation Secretary, on Tuesday will rescind fuel economy standards put in place by former President Joe Biden. The order directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to “reconsider the 2022 model year through 2031 model years for cars and trucks,” Reuters reported.
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Executive orders and announcements by President Trump have put billions of dollars in U.S. climate commitments into question.
And that would be unfortunate," the Former DOT secretary told The Verge. "The work we’ve done to make EVs more affordable is part of why there are more and more jobs being created in the industrial Midwest,
Hours after being sworn in as the new Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy took aim at the main way the federal government regulates miles per gallon for cars and pickup trucks.
Sean Duffy ordered his chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to “propose the rescission or replacement of any fuel economy standards” necessary to bring the rules in line with Trump’s priority of promoting oil and biofuel.
In one of his first acts as the newly confirmed Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT), Sean Duffy has taken swift action to roll back the Biden-Harris administration’s stringent fuel economy standards for vehicles,
Honda will recall 294,612 vehicles in the U.S. to fix an issue that may cause engines to stall or suffer a loss of power, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Wednesday.
A new report suggests that climate change-induced factors, like reduced rainfall, primed conditions for the Palisades and Eaton fires.