U.S. regulators want to halt plans to keep raising fuel-economy standards and are proposing ways to strip California’s ability to go its own way on the rules. Transportation Department officials have drafted a proposal outlining how the federal government could override a waiver that permits California to set stricter limits than Washington on air pollution and greenhouse gases coming from cars and trucks, according to senior administration and congressional officials familiar with the plan. It would be the most dramatic move...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 27, 2018 20:12 UTC