Tell the EPA: Don't Delay Clean Car Standards

Cleaner car standards are set to start in Model Year 2027 vehicles, and the technology to meet them already exists. But the EPA wants to delay them two years — counting the auto industry's $1.77 billion in savings while ignoring what the added soot and smog cost our health. That burden falls hardest on the people living near busy roads.

We must stand against this toxic handout to the auto industry.

Submit a public comment before July 6.

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Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just proposed delaying lifesaving clean car standards until 2029.

These standards will cut the soot, smog, and toxic chemicals from cars and trucks that cause asthma attacks, heart attacks, and premature deaths. Cost-effective technology to meet them already exists, and some automakers are already using it. There is no reason to delay.

Except the proposal lays the EPA's priorities bare: It carefully calculated the savings for the auto industry — $1.77 billion — while refusing to do the math on what the added pollution would cost our health. No air quality modeling. No quantification of the toll of asthma attacks, hospital visits, or premature deaths. It put a dollar figure on industry's convenience and left the human cost blank.

We must stand against this handout to the auto industry. Submit a public comment before July 6 opposing the EPA's plan to delay these critical standards.

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Subject Don't Delay Clean Car Standards

Dear Administrator Zeldin:

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I am writing to oppose the EPA's proposal to delay the Tier 4 criteria pollutant standards for light- and medium-duty vehicles by two years (Revision of Tier 4 Criteria Pollutant Standards, Part 1).

These standards would cut the soot, smog-forming gases, and toxic pollutants that cars and trucks emit — pollution that causes asthma attacks, heart attacks, strokes, and premature deaths. Cost-effective technology to meet them already exists and is already in use. The auto industry has known about these standards for years and had plenty of time to prepare. There is no sound basis for delay.

The EPA's own proposal makes its priorities clear. The agency calculated, in detail, the roughly $1.77 billion the delay would save the auto industry. But it declined to quantify the cost to public health — conducting no air quality modeling and putting no number on the additional asthma attacks, hospitalizations, and premature deaths the added pollution will cause. The proposal also fails to take into account that communities most likely to live in high-pollution areas, disproportionately low-income communities and communities of color, will be most impacted. An agency charged with protecting public health cannot justify weakening these protections while refusing to even measure the harm.

I urge the EPA to abandon this delay and allow the Tier 4 standards to take effect on schedule. The agency exists to protect the public from pollution, not to shield polluters from accountability.

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