Republicans Slam Final Rule Setting Higher Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards

June 17, 2024--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Biden administration issued a final rule increasing vehicle mileage standards it calculated would save drivers billions of dollars in fuel costs and keep an estimated hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air. Naturally, in hyper-partisan Washington, D.C., any move by a Democratic president is decried by Republicans, who have vowed to block it using the Congressional Review Act. L