COLUMBUS, Ohio—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected Ohio lawmakers’ attempt to allow Cleveland-area vehicle owners to avoid E-Check emissions testing simply by signing a form attesting that their vehicles meet the program’s standards.
In response, a Northeast Ohio lawmaker leading the charge against the E-Check program is appealing to President Donald Trump and his administration to intervene and allow the state’s “E-Check Ease Act” to take effect.
It’s one of several measures that Ohio lawmakers have passed recently to help hasten an end to Ohio’s E-Check program, which was set up in the 1990s to help Northeast Ohio meet federal ozone standards…