Lowering Fuel Economy Standards Not As Easy As Trump Thought

Cara Horowitz, co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law, explained that the Trump administration “is going to have to justify to a court why it’s changing its position because the rule was put in place after a robust administrative process and record. It’s often harder to justify a changing of a position than the taking of a position because you have to overcome the presumption that the rule was right in the first place.”