Washington sources reported car making heavyweights General Motors, toyota and Fiat Chrysler have backed President Donald Trump's efforts to ban california from maintaining its own stricter standards on car emissions, the auto giants have confirmed. Reportedly the announcement is the latest salvo in a months-long battle over car pollution between the white house and the US state, whose Democratic leaders have made fighting climate change a priority.
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Apparently california, which has some of the most polluted cities in the country, has used tough emissions standards to improve air quality and become a model for green tech. Furthermore Washington stripped the state of its decade’s old right to set its own car pollution regulations in september, arguing that higher standards depressed the new car market and kept older and more unsafe vehicles on the road.
Moreover california responded by suing the trump administration to block the move, alongside nearly two dozen other US states. John Bozzella, a spokesman for a coalition representing the firms said "With our industry facing the possibility of multiple, overlapping and inconsistent standards that drive up costs and penalize consumers, we had an obligation to intervene".
