Obama ready to let states decide emissions standards

Published Jan. 26, 2009 at 3:23 p.m.
California set to receive EPA waiver

Today, President Obama could make a decision that will have a drastic impact on the types of vehicles that Detroit produces. According to the AP, Obama is ready to "let California and other states set their own tailpipe emission standards — without having to get a waiver from the Environmental Protection Administration, as has been the case."

If California receives the waiver, automakers will have to cut CO2 emissions from autos by 30 percent by 2016, a move that many claim will require the production of, minimally, millions of hybrid cars and electric vehicles just for the state of California. And, with another 14 states having already adopted California's regulations, as goes California, so goes America.


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