Weak CAFE Standards Betray Working People
September 28, 2026
In response to today’s announcement, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh:
“For decades, fuel economy standards have driven innovation and job growth. While the rest of the world charges forward, this administration is hell bent on hamstringing our auto industry’s chance of remaining competitive in the global market. Framing the CAFE rollback as a manufacturing victory ignores global realities and—like most of this administration’s actions—will hurt our manufacturing sector. Today’s announcement will hurt workers in the U.S. auto industry and will result in working people spending more money at the pump and breathing more air pollution.”