Commentary: Trump rolls back fuel economy standards with another swipe at California's stringent anti-pollution rules

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Set us as preferred Subject to debate: What’s the dumbest idea to emerge from the Department of Transportation under its boss, former reality TV contestant Sean Duffy?Some might vote for Duffy’s attack on bike lanes — excuse me, “DEI bike lanes” as he calls them — based on a claim that bike lanes cause traffic congestion.(They don’t.) Or his suggestion that the travails and frustrations of modern-day air travel would be alleviated if passengers dressed up to fly, never mind that he sat by complacently as 3,000 Federal Aviation Administration employees were fired during Elon Musk’s DOGE frenzy, and that he encouraged thousands more to resign voluntarily.There is no reason to weaken standards that are technologically feasible and have a direct benefit for the quality of the air people breathe.— Harold Wimmer, American Lung AssociationOr that he took several weeks off from doing his job to film a cross-country jaunt with his family for a six-part TV documentary that was, as my colleague Lorraine Ali noted, funded by businesses regulated by his department.

No.The worst idea is a finalized regulatory rule — rolling back fuel economy standards for automobiles that had been strengthened during the Biden administration.

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30.Among its provisions is a continuation of Trump’s attack on California’s right to set its own vehicle emission standards, resuming an effort he lost d...