First GM, now Nissan! Demand that Toyota and Fiat-Chrysler also drop their opposition to the Clean Air Act

After Consumer Reports members delivered more than 75,000 petition signatures, the largest automaker in the country, General Motors, dropped its opposition to vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards in California. While GM must do more to earn consumers' trust, this is a step in the right direction for consumers, who will lose out on $300 billion in gas savings over the coming years if the original standards aren’t upheld. And it’s the right thing to do for our climate, too.

Now we need the remaining dominoes to fall. We need your help calling on Toyota and Fiat-Chrysler to withdraw their opposition to the Clean Air Act and support the original clean cars standards.

Can you send a quick message to the executives at Toyota and Fiat-Chrysler asking them to drop their opposition to cleaner air and more fuel savings?

After you’re done sending your message, please forward this email to friends and family to encourage them to send a message as well. 

Link to action:

https://act.consumerreports.org/w6UE03b?

Ask Congress to stand against rollback of Clean Car Standards

As a country, we’re worried about the health & safety of our friends and loved ones. We’re focused on making sure that our communities can weather the seemingly unavoidable economic downturn – and come out of this in a safer, healthier world.

These are the priorities of the public – and they should be the priorities of our government.

But while we’re focused on one of the biggest crises our country has ever faced, the Trump administration is exploiting this moment to finalize its profoundly damaging rollback of our nation’s Clean Car Standards – a decision that won’t just create more pollution and boost our dependence on foreign oil, but will cause thousands of premature deaths, cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars, and eliminate at least tens of thousands of jobs.

- Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Send the following message to your Members of Congress by clicking here. 

https://act.edf.org/jpsrktv

Americans are focused on a crisis. Our top priority is making sure our loved ones are safe and our communities are protected from the economic downturn -- and come out of this in a healthier, safer, cleaner world. We expect the same of our government.

There is never a good time to implement policies that will damage our public health, cost American jobs, and hit us in our wallets, but that is especially the case now.

Yet that’s just what the Trump administration did, as they finalized the rollback of the Clean Car Standards. These protections were adopted a decade ago, during a recession, with the full support of the auto industry. According to an analysis from Environmental Defense Fund, over the next decade, rolling back these protections won’t just add an additional 1.5 billion metric tons of climate pollution to the air and add to our dependence on foreign oil -- it will cost Americans $244 billion at the gas pump.

And according to EPA’s own analysis of their proposal, it would cost Americans 60,000 jobs. And independent analysis from Blue Green Alliance found that number to be higher – as many as 200,000 jobs.

This is not what our economy needs in this moment of crisis. Please stand strongly against this attack on our protections.