At the close of the public comment period, CPR Initiative along with Dr. Donn J Viviani, James E. Hansen, John Fitzgerald, Dr. John Birks, Dr. Lise Van Susteren, Dr. Eelco Rohling, Mike Schauer, Rabbi Dev Noily, Richard Heede, Stephanie Herrington, and Randolph Nelson Bonner, urged the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its plan to (a) retract its 2009 endangerment finding and (b) terminate all federal restrictions on mobile source greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Speaking directly to the EPA Administrator, our Comment noted, “[t]he sad irony of your position. . . that, by your proposal, you are seeking to insulate mobile sources of GHG emissions at the very time that advances in clean energy generation and battery technology render it more possible than ever before to zero out such emissions in succeeding fleets of light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles and engines.”
Moreover, as part of our concluding remarks, we stated that “[u]ntil or unless the United States is otherwise embarked on a sufficient, firm and binding decarbonization pathway, our present painstakingly derived set of regulatory restrictions on mobile source GHG emissions should not be repealed.”
CPR Initiative’s full Comment follows: