Butt, butt, butt............... Where’s the ‘prop 65’ warning on this message? I thought anything in regards to kali had to have the prop 65 warning on it.
...might also consider setting guardrails on Massachusetts v. EPA
You... you've got nice little dicta going for you... We wouldn't want anything to happen to it...
Would be a real shame.
I say the feds need to stay out of it. States rights.
bkmk
The 1970 law granted California the ability to ask for a waiver from strictly federal controls on tailpipe emissions, but it did not mandate that the waiver had to be approved, and the waiver itself was conditioned on special needs regarding the pollutants coming from automobile exhaust, which have largely been equaled and taken care of now by federal standards. Also, the law did not classify CO2 as a pollutant nor mandate its coverage in any automobile standards. Obama tried to rewrite the law by executive fiat to include CO2. He won that argument, temporarily in a Supreme Court case, which the Trump administration is also contesting.
The entire current episode is that California has been able to cajole the major automakers to bend to its will on new standards, which would result in California’s standard becoming the de facto national standard, lest the automakers have to manufacture one set of cars for California and another set for the rest of the country.
Trump is right to withdraw the waiver. It’s original intent is no longer germane.
What is left out of this discussion is that the environment in the west is different than in the east. What causes smog in the west is directly opposite than in the east. The catalytic converter works in the west but makes things worst in the east.
Electric vehicles suck
That being said Tesla are pretty sexy and fast