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‘Major Catastrophic Changes’ – Air Quality Leaders Decry Reversal Of State Emissions Authority

On Thursday, the Trump administration revoked California’s authority to set its own rules on tailpipe emissions. The reversal of California’s nearly-50-year-old waiver means the state won’t be able to push auto makers faster than the federal government can to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants that come out of cars. The decision came just a day before students and activists took to the streets in cities across the world – including Fresno – as part of the Global Climate Strike. Policy coordinator Ivanka Saunders with the non-profit advocacy group Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability is concerned not just for climate change, but also climate impacts on local health and safety. “If you’re not meeting these certain goals of reducing these emissions by 2025, 2050, there’s major catastrophic changes of our earth’s environment that are just going to get worse with the drought, the fires, all of that,” she says. The move could also stymy efforts toward much
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