The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce in the coming days that it will be rolling back the fuel economy targets for cars and SUVs—a move that could be welcomed by car manufacturers, but that could also send the Administration toward a legal clash with California, which has vowed not to back down on fuel efficiency standards. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has already sent a 16-page draft of the plan to the White House for approval, The New York Times reported on Thursday, quoting an EPA spokeswoman. “The result will be more gas-guzzling vehicles on the road, greater total gasoline consumption, and a significant increase in carbon dioxide emissions,” Robert Stavins, director of the Harvard environmental economics program, told the NYT. Pruitt is expected to present the rolling back of the fuel efficiency standards as removing a regulatory burden on car manufacturers that would help them […]