Book contents
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- 2 The Endangerment Game
- 3 The Precautionary Principle
- 4 The EPA’s Newfound Role in Regulating Automobile Mileage
- 5 “It Will Bankrupt You” – Using Environmental Regulations to End the Mining and Use of Coal in America
- 6 The Clean Power Plan, the Rule of Law, and the EPA’s Takeover of State and Regional Electricity Systems
- 7 Renewable Power and the Reliability and Cost of Electricity
- 8 Renewable Power Subsidies and Mandates
- 9 Spinning the Tort Liability Roulette Wheel
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- References
- Index
4 - The EPA’s Newfound Role in Regulating Automobile Mileage
from Part I - The Costs of Precautionary Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2021
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- 2 The Endangerment Game
- 3 The Precautionary Principle
- 4 The EPA’s Newfound Role in Regulating Automobile Mileage
- 5 “It Will Bankrupt You” – Using Environmental Regulations to End the Mining and Use of Coal in America
- 6 The Clean Power Plan, the Rule of Law, and the EPA’s Takeover of State and Regional Electricity Systems
- 7 Renewable Power and the Reliability and Cost of Electricity
- 8 Renewable Power Subsidies and Mandates
- 9 Spinning the Tort Liability Roulette Wheel
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- References
- Index
Summary
As described in Chapter 2, after Congress failed to pass climate change legislation in 2009, the Obama administration EPA moved very quickly to find that GHG emissions from autos and light trucks were reasonably likely to endanger human health or welfare. This – the Endangerment Finding – then provided the legal basis for a number of subsequent regulations promulgated under the Clean Air Act. Most directly, the EPA first imposed GHG emission limits for cars (using the same section of the CAA under which the Endangerment Finding had been made). In so doing, the EPA arrogated to itself the job of setting mileage standards for cars and light trucks, a job that Congress had explicitly given to a very different agency, the National Highway Transportation Safety administration, that had a very different historical mission. Moreover, the automobile mileage standards set under the Obama administration’s so-called tailpipe rule were essentially the standards that California and some northeastern states had imposed on themselves.
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- Climate RationalityFrom Bias to Balance, pp. 64 - 76Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021