MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WRN) — Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor Tom Tiffany says he wants to end vehicle emissions testing in southeastern Wisconsin.
He calls the program costly and time‑consuming, especially for low‑income drivers with older vehicles. Tiffany says he would ask the Environmental Protection Agency for a waiver to eliminate the testing requirement. Republican lawmakers backing the plan say failure rates are low for newer vehicles.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson says clean air matters, but the region also faces pollution drifting in from Illinois and Indiana. Wisconsin has required vehicle emission testing for over 40 years, an it’s required for most 1996 and newer vehicles in seven southeastern Wisconsin counties.