Two business groups have called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stick with the current schedule for tightening national emissions standards, which would require each automaker to average 54.5 mpg for its fleet by 2025. One group, the Ceres BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy), includes a variety of businesses, such as Adobe, Gap, General Mills and Nike. The other, CALSTART, is a national group representing suppliers in the clean transportation technology industry.
But the Trump administration has shown itself to be much more receptive to the arguments of the auto industry. Major automakers met with President Trump soon after his inauguration, asking him to reopen the midterm review of the emissions standards that had been approved by the Obama administration. He did, and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has an April 1, 2018 deadline to announce his decision on the schedule for the emissions rules.
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