Thx.
> The states can’t bind other states or inhibit free trade.
Apparently they can. For decades California has done so regarding so-called air quality, which is one big reason the US auto industry wound up in the shape it’s in.
Good point.
CARB is a little bit different, and doesn’t really apply. It never made any sense to me. Through some sort of legal jiggery-pokery the fact that CARB predates US federal pollution or emission regulatory agencies magically makes it OK for California to set their own pollution standards. Or something. Consequently their market being very large it drives the manufacturers to adhere to their standard versus making two lines of product - one for Cali, and then for everybody else.
In the case of food, I think they made their bed now they get to lie in it. California lunacy regardless should not be forced on the other 49 states.