States Push For More Air Pollution

The Biden Administration’s efforts to curtail carbon dioxide by states have run into a wall in the Senate. If this resistance swells, Admission pollution goals may become impossible to attain. The Senate could pass legislation that undermines the Administration’s plans.

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Route Fifty states,  “The proposal would block a rule the Federal Highway Administration issued in November that requires state transportation departments and metropolitan planning organizations to track the carbon dioxide vehicles produce on their roads. The rule also instructs those agencies to make a plan to reduce CO2 pollution, although there is no penalty for not doing so.”

On a related topic, car companies and oil companies are pressing back on an initiative to improve fleet mileage targets, most likely by higher sales of EVs. EV sales have slowed considerably in recent months.

Cars And Greenhouse Gas

The transportation industry is the source of about a third of US greenhouse gas emissions. Failure to affect that means goals to reduce pollution will be impossible to reach. That, in turn, means the US will not be able to fulfill its promises to help cut emissions worldwide, and the chance of an international solution to climate change will be dealt a major blow.

The Senate move is part of a much larger global movement in which nations and industries have argued that they cannot meet pollution reduction targets for economic or political reasons. The FHA plans have started to move toward futility.