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In a press conference on Tuesday, Sens. Flavio Bravo and Juan Mendez were joined by advocates for environmental justice and public health as they urged the Environmental Protection Agency to finalize its proposed clean car standards this month to better support a nationwide movement towards electric vehicles.
Last April, EPA proposed “ambitious” standards to reduce harmful emissions from cars and trucks starting with model year 2027, encouraging a gradual move towards an emissions free future. The proposed regulations include reductions to tailpipe emissions that would ensure that a larger percentage of the new cars sold in the U.S. are all-electric by 2032.
The EPA projects that, through 2055, the standards would avoid nearly 10 billion tons of CO2 emissions — more than twice the emissions produced by the U.S. in 2022.
