Citing climate-damaging tailpipe emissions, 23 U.S. governors signed a pledge backing California leaders in their showdown with the Trump administration over its plans to relax vehicle mileage standards.
Vehicles travel west on Interstate 80 across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as seen from Treasure Island in 2015.
The governors' pledge on Tuesday commits to sticking to the pre-Trump mileage goals, a program of annual tightening in mileage standards that reduce climate-changing carbon emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency didn't immediately comment on the pledge, which was made public overnight.
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