Under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been reconsidering a number of regulations and emissions standards that were set under the Biden administration, moves that have received support from the Ford backed lobby group Alliance for Automotive Innovation (AAI) – as well as The Blue Oval itself. However, while Ford believes that the EPA’s mission to roll back emissions standards is good for business, it’s also asking the Trump administration to exercise caution when executing those same changes.
According to The Detroit News, Ford recently submitted a federal filing to the Trump administration requesting “modest” greenhouse gas emissions standards that would take effect for the 2025 model year and “steadily become more stringent over time.” The EPA’s proposal to end greenhouse gas emissions regulations entirely – officially called the “Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards” – has been open for public comment for some time now, and has thus far received over 300,000 of them, including this letter from Ford and some of its peers.
“EPA proposes to eliminate all vehicle GHG emissions standards. To be sure, current standards are not aligned with customer choice and market realities. They need to be eased, and we therefore welcome the EPA’s important efforts in this direction,” Cynthia Williams, Ford’s global director of sustainability, homologation, and compliance, wrote in the letter. “But pragmatically, eliminating standards altogether is not likely to provide the industry with the long-term stability we need to make historic investments in America and compete globally.”
As Ford Authority reported in July, the EPA previously announced that it plans to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which officially declared greenhouse gasses as a danger to human life. The kicker here is that this rule enables the EPA to place limits on the pollutants emitted by vehicles, so if it goes away, such a move would remove tailpipe emissions standards for automakers.
If the EPA’s current proposal is finalized, it would remove all greenhouse gas standards for light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty engines, starting with the first greenhouse gas rule set in 2010 for light-duty vehicles and in 2011 for medium-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles and engines.
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More BS from Ford management. Your given a break take it.
Establishing rational standards makes sense. It’s near impossible for automakers to make future vehicle plans without knowing what the regulations are going to be, which is what the administration is basically proposing. The next president is going to reverse most, if not all, of these eliminations anyway.
We don’t know who the next president is going to be. It could very well be JD Vance.
The Biden era regs are meant to put ICE out of business. Removes customer choice And even hybrids are gone. Toyota was the only car company that didn’t blow billions on BEVs. Ford took 9.3 billion in pre bailout tax money for BEV’s. Big brother had gotten too big. Revising the regulations was the proper rational.
That the problem with todays Ford leadership team…the extreme former policies of last EPA..has made cars and trucks unrealible…more recalls and more costly…start stop, 10 transmission…direct injection…are examples…and with big rigs ask trucking companies and owner drivers the problems they had since DEF, exhaust after treatment..expenses that cause down time..while we need clean air and smog control…this nik piking is to extreme also the cafe standards are a big part of it, your pocket book gains nothing if say a car get 40 mile per gallon and cost a third more…and expense to maintain..that where we are at. at Ford recalls seem to be job 1
True. Think of all the new tech on engines that is more moving parts and more calibration. All adds up to more opportunities for quality issues.
BF and JF you don’t have to follow the revised rules. You can take the high road and keep the Biden emission rules. No one will stop you or fine you. But Toyota will be laughing at your virtue signaling.