Green Groups, Health Advocates Urge Against Tailpipe Rule Delay

Environmentalists, healthcare advocates, and private citizens lined up Wednesday to implore the EPA to keep in place a Biden-era vehicle tailpipe emissions rule.

The mostly negative feedback heard during the morning of a planned two-day meeting is now part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s official record and must be taken into account as the agency moves forward in its rulemaking.

In May, the EPA proposed to delay by two years the deadline for automakers to cut their emissions. Aaron Szabo, head of the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, said in remarks before the Wednesday meeting that those standards were ...