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By” Andrea Sears<\/p>\n

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania has joined more than 20 other states\u00a0in a lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0challenging the Trump administration’s\u00a0revocation of California’s right to set tougher auto-emission standards<\/a>. California has been setting higher vehicle emissions standards since the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Thirteen other states, including Pennsylvania, follow California’s lead. The\u00a0American Lung Association<\/a>\u00a0gives a dozen counties in the Keystone State a failing grade for the number of high ozone days putting children, the elderly and those with respiratory problems at risk.<\/p>\n

State College Mayor Donald Hahn pointed out that higher emission standards are a major health issue.<\/p>\n

“Considering the population concentrations in Pennsylvania as well as California, it’s essential that each state have some control over the air-quality standards that their citizens have to live with,” Hahn said.<\/p>\n

The administration has said raising the emission standards will make cars more expensive, and that will encourage people to drive older, dirtier cars.<\/p>\n

But Paul Billings, national senior vice president for public policy at the American Lung Association, said raising fuel-efficiency standards actually saves consumers money in addition to improving air quality. And rolling back those standards would do just the opposite.<\/p>\n

“So we’re going to have vehicles that create more greenhouse-gas pollution, don’t go as far on a tank of gas, and that will mean that more money comes out of families’ pockets for their monthly transportation costs,” Billings said.<\/p>\n

California wants to raise gas mileage to 50 miles per gallon by 2025, but the president wants to freeze mileage standards at the 2020 level of 37 mpg.<\/p>\n

Transportation is the biggest source of greenhouse gas. Hahn is a member of a national coalition of\u00a0Climate Mayors<\/a>\u00a0committed to fighting climate change. He noted that Pennsylvania already is experiencing the negative impacts of global warming.<\/p>\n

“We’re all feeling the effects in terms of warmer temperatures, in terms of greater storms that we here in Central Pennsylvania have generally been unfamiliar with” Hahn said.<\/p>\n

The revocation of California’s waiver allowing it to set higher standards would go into effect 60 days after it is published in the federal register.<\/p>\n

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