Clean air advocates want EPA to leave car emission standards alone
Dec 20, 2018, 4:30 AM
(Peter Samore/KTAR News)
PHOENIX — Arizona clean air advocates are urging lawmakers not to let the EPA roll back car emissions standards.
“It’s not just a full stop, it’s actually going in reverse of what we should be doing,” said Tempe Vice Mayor Lauren Kuby.
The advocates say the standards promote innovation among automakers and cheaper gas prices for consumers.
On bad air days, Herlinda Calderon of Phoenix must limit her asthmatic, 11-year-old daughter’s time outdoors.
“You’re going to have an attack at night, we’re going to run you to the hospital, and we don’t want that,” Calderon says she tells her daughter.
“She’ll say, ‘Oh my God, mom, please, leave me here with my friends.'”
The EPA and Trump Administration have said the emissions standards are too tight for automakers, and they need reevaluation some time next decade.