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.

Under the program, vehicles in Cuyahoga County and six surrounding counties that are between four and 25 years old and that

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