California to sue over Congress blocking climate waivers

Sacramento Bee ^ | May 22, 2025 | By Lia Russell

[artichokegrower]

The Senate’s unprecedented move to revoke California’s ban on gasoline-powered cars by 2035 threatens to upend the U.S.’s status as both an economic powerhouse and a world leader on climate change mitigation, Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters Thursday. He and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced plans to sue to block Congress from revoking the ban Thursday morning at the California Environmental Protection Agency office in downtown Sacramento.

[artichokegrower]

Newsom said electric vehicle technology was rapidly changing fast enough for middle-class people to afford them, citing a Chinese-made BYD car that costs $9,700.

So Newsom is telling the Detroit autoworkers to go pound sand

[frank ballenger]

Do we all remember this? Several sources.

California Legislature Approves $50 Million Newsom Fund to Fight Trump ...

Feb 4, 2025 — California’s Legislature on Monday approved a plan to fund potential lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s administration.
The fund for litigation aims to pay for legal resources in the state’s Justice Department and regulatory agencies to challenge anticipated actions by the Trump Administration.

[Freedumb]

I’d bet the current BYD cars that cost $9,700 would fail to meet US Safety Standards that the Democrats are so eager to apply to the other manufacturers cars that are for sale in the USA.

[cableguymn]

Someone might want to point out to newscum that the California power grid can hardly support current demand

[Organic Panic]

I would say let California suffer but the problem is they leave and infested their new homes with the same stupid policies they flee.

[FLT-bird]

The morons are still trying to peddle the lie that Gaia worship leads to job creation and economic growth.....after seeing German and Britain where industry is fleeing.....after seeing Spain with its complete Blackout.

[cableguymn]

https://electrek.co/2024/03/06/byd-launches-cheaper-seagull-ev-9700-price/

Looks yugo safe..... (So not very)

[lightman]

The unconstitutional interstate compact aka climate copycat legislation has linked many NE US States to California.

Governor Nuisance wants to be Eparch of America.

[Cobra64]

These jerks don’t even realize the state cannot support the electricity demand, much less have the infrastructure in place. Like everything else in this shit hole paradise, this is another choo-choo fuster cluck.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Some guy is trying to get investors interested in his idea to build small basic trucks here in the US.

He got lots of interest until he said proudly that these would be "ELECTRIC" trucks.

The general buzz was, "And I'm out".

Gas or diesel yes. In fact diesel would be an "oh yes".

But not electric. It is not the price. It is the dependability. It is the fact that we know engines and how to work on them. But electric? No thank you.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

“”Looks yugo safe””

From the groove yard of forgotten favorites. Thanks to El Rush-Bo and Paul Shanklin.

In A Yugo

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MqTKZgEW8pM&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

[Dr. Sivana]

citing a Chinese-made BYD car that costs $9,700.

Likely would not achieve U.S. crash safety standards.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I don’t understand the reasoning.

It was ok all those decades ago, for a previous Congress and President, to give California a waiver from various environmental laws and policies. It was ok to treat California differently from other states.

But now it is considered illegal, to change that status and treat California the way all other states are treated?

So now treating California the same as other states generates a lawsuit from Newsom?

I can’t wait to hear the legal reasoning that will be used in such a lawsuit. If the effect of this change is just going to be the treat California as all other states are treated, where the heck is a basis for any lawsuit?

Of course, I am not a liberal lawyer. So I just can’t conceive of the legal reasoning that would be used.

[citizen]

Judge shopping.

Does not matter if it’s the White House or Congress, Dems will run for a crooked judge.

[Revel]

California should be fined for filing a frivolous law suit.

[HIDEK6]

Of course they are.

We Americans are at war with the left.

[anton]

CARB has already wrecked most of our consumer appliances.

[Nateman]

...threatens to upend the U.S.’s status as both an economic powerhouse and a world leader on climate change mitigation...

They say that like it's a bad thing. They concluded it threatens America being an economic powerhouse when the Climate Change Cult does exactly that.

[Eleutheria5]

A waiver means that they let you do something you otherwise wouldn’t be allowed to. Now they’re suing over it?

[convoter2016]

I’m not a lawyer but it is my understanding that federal government agencies do have to follow the laws passed by Congress and signed by the U.S. President. So if Congress passed a law which revokes California’s waiver, the Supreme Court won’t void this new law.