{"id":16259,"date":"2025-08-06T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/2025\/08\/06\/removed-from-emissions-regulations-co2-reassessment-in-the-usa\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:23:53","slug":"removed-from-emissions-regulations-co2-reassessment-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/2025\/08\/06\/removed-from-emissions-regulations-co2-reassessment-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Removed from emissions regulations: CO2 reassessment in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What does this fundamental change of course by the Americans actually mean for the EU?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indeed: difficult to foresee &#8211; especially in view of current developments in US-EU trade relations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focus.de\/auto\/autoaktuell\/verbrenner-verbot-und-co2-regeln-in-den-usa-gekippt-was-das-bedeutet_92cd4320-c1b1-4e34-b6c4-f727026b06a2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In contrast to the highly controversial exhaust gas regulations in the EU, the environmental authority EPA, according to FOCUS, &#8220;only classifies CO2 as a greenhouse gas, but not as a pollutant such as nitrogen oxides or sulphur dioxide. This would repeal a regulation issued in 2009, on the basis of which CO2 emissions were regulated and taxed&#8221;. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is certainly the most radical variant of overturning the ban on combustion engines in the direction of &#8220;everything is allowed again&#8221; &#8211; i.e. also in the direction of unrestricted use of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, in view of this strong development, the unwavering adherence to the EU emissions regulations, which are often perceived as very unfair and one-sided, for the sole benefit of electromobility is no longer expedient today and must be further developed in favor of a new, genuine openness to technology. After all, it is already possible to run a combustion engine car with synthetic fuels with significantly reduced CO2 emissions. So why impose bans when there is already a better alternative to fossil fuels?  <\/p>\n<p>And the question or classification that CO2 is &#8220;only a greenhouse gas&#8221; and not a pollutant and must therefore be removed from the emissions regulations has apparently been conclusively answered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, this CO2 reassessment certainly represents a drastic change in discourse on the subject of climate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does this fundamental change of course by the Americans actually mean for the EU? Indeed: difficult to foresee &#8211; especially in view of current developments in US-EU trade relations. In contrast to the highly controversial exhaust gas regulations in the EU, the environmental authority EPA, according to FOCUS, &#8220;only classifies CO2 as a greenhouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_efuels_review_status":"","_efuels_reject_reason":"","_efuels_reject_code":"","_efuels_rejected_by":0,"_efuels_rejected_at":"","_efuels_approved_by":0,"_efuels_approved_at":"","_efuels_relevanz_score":0,"_efuels_quelle":"","_efuels_notion_id":"","_efuels_anweisungen":"","_efuels_bild_modus":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-fuels-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}