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The CAFE Rollback Is Audaciously, Aggressively Awful - Legal Planet
This morning I blogged about some wonky reactions to the Trump/NHTSA rollback of the CAFE standards. Now I want to step back and highlight just how truly bad the new set of standards is, based on inc...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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The result of all of these interpretive shenanigans is a rollback of standards that are much lower even than the standards Trump I adopted... when Trump’s second term NHTSA guts the standards set by the first Trump NHTSA, you know the proposal is crazy.
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The result of all of these interpretive shenanigans is a rollback of standards that are much lower even than the standards Trump I adopted... when Trump’s second term NHTSA guts the standards set by the first Trump NHTSA, you know the proposal is crazy.
Finally, NHTSA is monkeying with how NHTSA has previously determined what is included in what is called the “baseline.”
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Finally, NHTSA is monkeying with how NHTSA has previously determined what is included in what is called the “baseline.”
And the standards are supposed to be adopted at least 18 months prior to a new model year beginning, yet NHTSA is attempting to retroactively amend standards back to Model Year 2022.
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And the standards are supposed to be adopted at least 18 months prior to a new model year beginning, yet NHTSA is attempting to retroactively amend standards back to Model Year 2022.
The standards are set for ten years despite statutory language directing NHTSA to issue standards for not more than five years. 🤔
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The standards are set for ten years despite statutory language directing NHTSA to issue standards for not more than five years. 🤔
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November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“Who is a fossil-free world for? It’s for future generations,” current @law.ucla.edu law student (and former adviser to the UN secretary general) Ayisha Siddiqa tells @dpcarrington.bsky.social.
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Siddiqa and her team are collecting citizen testimony from young people around the world on how the climate crisis is taking away their human right to a healthy environment, to safety, to clean air. These will be built into an international declaration on the rights of future generations. 👏
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Siddiqa and her team are collecting citizen testimony from young people around the world on how the climate crisis is taking away their human right to a healthy environment, to safety, to clean air. These will be built into an international declaration on the rights of future generations. 👏
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