WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Trump administration announced a roll-back of the corporate average fuel economy standards that save drivers money at the gas pump and cut dangerous air pollution. Senator Markey was the House co-author of the 2007 legislative standards that led to the historic fuel economy standard that the Trump administration is attempting to undercut through its proposal of a standard that does not strive for the maximum feasible level established in law.

"The Trump administration is hellbent on gutting commonsense regulations that are good f...