Calif. Official on Trump Repealing Emissions Waiver: More People Will Die from Pollution

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NICHOLS: “The standards that we are now in the process of enforcing are necessary to protect the public health and welfare, not just because we care about the future of the planet or polar bears. It’s because we actually need these extra clean cars in order to meet the health standards that are set by the federal government that we violate now on a regular basis throughout southern California and the San Joaquin Valley. If this prevails, if it were to prevail, because I don’t believe it will, millions of people in California and other states that follow our standards will be breathing dirtier air. They will suffer from more pollution, more asthma cases, more hospitalizations, more premature deaths because the Trump Administration is going to try to pull back on the current standards."