Posted on 12/24/2024 4:12:04 AM PST by karpov
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday granted two requests from California to enforce strict standards for vehicle emissions, including a rule aimed at banning sales of new gasoline-powered cars in the state by 2035. The incoming Trump administration is likely to try to reverse the action.
The California rule is stricter than a federal rule adopted this year that tightens emissions standards but does not require sales of electric vehicles.
EPA said its review found that opponents of the two waivers did not meet their legal burden to show how either the EV rule or a separate measure on heavy-duty vehicles was inconsistent with the federal Clean Air Act.
“California has longstanding authority to request waivers from EPA to protect its residents from dangerous air pollution coming from mobile sources like cars and trucks,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement. “Today’s actions follow through on EPA’s commitment to partner with states to reduce emissions and act on the threat of climate change.”
The new waiver is important not only to California but to more than a dozen other states that follow its nation-leading standards on vehicle emissions.
Even so, the waiver is likely to be short-lived. President-elect Donald Trump has said he will move to revoke all California waivers as part of an industry-friendly approach that includes boosting production of fossil fuels and repealing key parts of a landmark 2022 climate law.
Trump rescinded California’s authority on emissions in 2019, only to be reversed three years later by the Biden EPA, which restored the state’s authority in 2022.
Any effort by the new administration is likely to spawn a new set of legal challenges that could delay any action.
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redundant move
The EPA needs to be disbanded. Environmental issues should be left up to the individual states.
I went a long stretch in my younger life where I didn’t have much of a problem with having federal pollution regulations, but...not what the EPA became and is now.
The EPA is an unelected, faceless bureaucracy that is allowed to create extra-Congressional, unconstitutional legislation that is wielded like a club against the most innocuous perceived violations by ordinary citizens who have little to no recourse for relief from persecution.
They are the poster child of a bloated federal agency that wholly abuses its power.
I am all for eliminating the EPA.
Reverse it on day one.
Slap it out of their hands and shove bamboo sticks under their fingernails.
They should let them go forward with it so everyone gets a taste of how stupid trying too do all EVs would be. Why?
o There isn’t enough electrical generation to support it.
o If there were, there isn’t enough transmissions and distribution grid to get the power where it needs to be.
o There isn’t enough mining and materials processing to make all the batteries and conductors necessary for the whole scheme.
But other than the above, it’s a GREAT idea!
Ban the spa and the Calif. EPA will do it on their own so buy the car out of state. Good luck registering it.
Executive Order on day 1.
I’d say that Trump’s possible action coupled with the USSC’s ruling on the Chevron Doctrine is justification enough to throttle this massive overstep of authority by the EPA.
Or, simply, we take the Democrat line of “how are you going to pay for that cut? Where is it in the ruling that California has the needed capacity of electricity for EVs to take over the fossil fuel vehicle dump? What other forms of transportation capacity will California have to take over?”
Do not revoke it!
Promise to vigorously support the California ban.
Compel California politicians to revoke it, or to extend it, again and again...
Make the Democrats eat humble pie EVERY time an opportunity presents itself!
It will be fascinating to see how the citizens of California react to the increased brownouts, due to more electrical consumption. Will they elect more conservatives when they realize they must reverse this idiotic decision themselves. Or is Governor Harris and more uncompleted bullet trains their destiny?
I respectfully disagree. Trump should officially keep it in place, then tell his AG to not really fight it when a state or private entity fights it all the way to SCOTUS. A SCOTUS win on this would be deeper than the recent undermining of the old Chevron defense and could have a much better and longer lasting impact than just Trump reversing it.
Mr President,
DO NOT REVOKE ANYTHING, Embrace this new law in California and the 12 States that are bound by their own legislatures to follow suit. They are saving the planet, don’t ya know??
SHOW THEM YOU CARE by issuning an Executive Order to Bolster their endeavor.:
Any State that has a law, or policy of banning ICE powered Vehicles, SHALL NOT receive any Traqnsportation Funding of any kind unless and until 100% of the Public Employee’s in that State exclusively use an EV for ALL Travel and are PROHIBITED from Using, Owning or Possessing ANY ICE powered vehicle of any kind.
SHOW THEM YOU CARE, GIVE THEM YOUR SUPPORT.
The Mafia used to use the term “Straighten Out” because some guys needed to be Straightened out. Trump is gonna straighten out some people......the EPA, Newsome, etc. The boss is coming...
Interesting strategy. In other words, let em wallow in their own mess. Let me think about that for awhile. Might work.
The goal of those working at the EPA is to destroy the oil and gas companies. Period.
He could let it stand, but only for California. Because they are special.
State’s rights trump most of the crap coming from FedGov these days. The commerce clause was never intended to give FedGov absolute power over the states.
So Trump should let these misguided states ban ICE power in favor of EVs. Let these states tax their own citizens for the massive expense needed to build the needed infrastructure.
And on the other hand, sane states should not sell power to CA etc. Let these EV-only states get what they voted for ... good a hard.
I would have to agree.
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