CAC: Trump’s Fuel Economy Standards Rollback is Another Costly Giveaway to Polluters

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 3, 2025
CONTACT: Gabrielle Levy, Glevy@cacampaign.org, 562-673-6974

CAC: Trump’s Fuel Economy Standards Rollback is Another Costly Giveaway to Polluters

WASHINGTON – Today, the Trump administration announced a rollback of federal fuel-economy standards, continuing their assault on clean air and consumers. Experts warn it will leave consumers with fewer choices and higher long-term fuel costs. Despite Trump’s attacks, major automakers are continuing to invest heavily in zero-pollution electric vehicles because market demand – not weaker standards – is driving their decisions. Margie Alt, Director of the Climate Action Campaign (CAC), released the following statement in response:

“Rolling back fuel efficiency standards isn’t pro-consumer — it’s pro-polluter. It saddles Americans with worse climate change impacts and forces them to pay more for fuel at the pump at a time that they can least afford it.

Consumers are flocking to cleaner running, more efficient cars and trucks. Rolling back the standards that have helped bring those vehicles to market won’t bring down prices, but instead make cars more expensive to buy and own. Weakening standards now doesn’t guarantee cheaper cars, but it will guarantee more pollution, and in turn more people getting sick and a worsening climate crisis.

This administration’s Polluters First Agenda is selling false savings to consumers while in reality locking in higher prices, extra profits for billionaires and oil execs, and damage to our health and our climate.”

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