The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has requested that legislators oppose the legislation by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, that would overturn the EPA endangerment finding for GHG emissions, the Detroit News reported. A letter from the group warned that the reversal would cause the collapse of last year's agreement with 13 states and the Obama administration on targets for cutting vehicular emissions and federal and state rules on the emissions.
Alliance President and CEO Dave McCurdy claimed that failing to allow EPA to set emissions rules by April would create "a compliance nightmare across the country" because it would open the way for California to institute its own rules instead. Murkowski responded to the letter by claiming that "automakers were pressured to weigh in against the bipartisan, bicameral disapproval resolutions" and therefore sent the letter to legislators. Alliance spokesman Charles Territo denied Murkowski's claim.
Clean Skies News reported that earlier in the week the United Auto Workers sent its own letter to legislators making the same request on the grounds that individual state standards would subject "auto manufacturers to all of the burdens that the one national standard was designed to avoid."
- Related story also appeared in The Hill.
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