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Car Companies Want Stricter Emissions Standards. What’s the Problem? (Opinion)

Wall Street Journal, 9/9/19

The Trump administration’s fight with auto makers over clean-car standards is unnecessary. Only a decade ago, state and national leaders, environmental advocates and auto executives came together to compromise for the common good. Their 2009 clean-car agreement put the U.S. on a path to less climate pollution, greater savings at the pump and the regulatory certainty that auto makers need to manage long-term capital investment. Stakeholders could look ahead to an era of innovation and profit.