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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/c...ors-trump.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/c...ors-trump.html
WASHINGTON — General Motors abandoned the battle to nullify California’s fuel economy rules meant to curb global warming.
The company also signaled that it was ready to work with the incoming adminsitration to reduce climate-warming emissions in the auto sector.
“Biden recently said, ‘I believe that we can own the 21st century car market again by moving to electric vehicles.’ We at General Motors couldn’t agree more,” Mary Barra, the General Motors chief executive, wrote in a letter Monday to leaders of some of the nation’s largest environmental groups.
Ms. Barra said her company, one of the largest automakers in the world, was withdrawing its support for litigation that seeks to strip California of its ability to set its own, strict fuel economy standards, and she urged Toyota and Fiat Chrysler to do the same.
Ms. Barra also spoke by telephone on Monday with Mary Nichols, California’s top climate regulator, who is a leading candidate to run the Environmental Protection Agency in a Biden administration.
The company also signaled that it was ready to work with the incoming adminsitration to reduce climate-warming emissions in the auto sector.
“Biden recently said, ‘I believe that we can own the 21st century car market again by moving to electric vehicles.’ We at General Motors couldn’t agree more,” Mary Barra, the General Motors chief executive, wrote in a letter Monday to leaders of some of the nation’s largest environmental groups.
Ms. Barra said her company, one of the largest automakers in the world, was withdrawing its support for litigation that seeks to strip California of its ability to set its own, strict fuel economy standards, and she urged Toyota and Fiat Chrysler to do the same.
Ms. Barra also spoke by telephone on Monday with Mary Nichols, California’s top climate regulator, who is a leading candidate to run the Environmental Protection Agency in a Biden administration.
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