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Posted on 06/10/2025 7:59:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
President Donald Trump plans to sign a trio of resolutions Thursday to revoke California’s nation-leading vehicle emissions standards.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), author of a resolution to nix the state’s electric vehicle sales mandate via the Congressional Review Act, and Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) confirmed that the White House has scheduled the signings at 11 a.m. on Thursday.
Trump’s signature will finalize his administration’s monthslong effort to thwart California’s authority to set stricter electrification rules for passenger vehicles and commercial trucks, along with higher standards for heavy-duty diesel engines.
Trump’s EPA revoked an earlier version of California’s vehicle emissions rules through an 18-month regulatory process during his first term, but Republicans’ vote last month to expedite the rollback through Congress marked the first time waiver approvals have been considered subject to the CRA since President Bill Clinton signed the law in 1996.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has promised to fight the decision, saying last month that he plans to sue once Trump signs the resolutions.
Spokespeople for Bonta did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Daniel Villaseñor, a spokesperson for California Gov. Gavin Newsom, said the state is ready to defend its rules.
“If it’s a day ending in Y, it’s another day of Trump’s war on California. We’re fighting back,” Villaseñor said in a statement.
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So California wants to SUE to skew the car and truck market so badly that everybody in the US will be forced to buy EVs? Does anybody here think Cali’s EV mandate is just about Cali?
Trump to revoke California statehood on Friday. /S off.
Why should California be given a special exemption to set its own vehicle emissions laws that no other state is given?
w00t!
Yeah, wait til the smoke from burning the city clears before enacting tighter regulations on vehicle emissions.
Newscum is gonna force Californians to pay 8 bucks a gallon in order to force everyone to electric cars
NY has has the same law banning Gas Cars sales gradually until 2035 when they will ban all sales of Gas cars.
They are banning the sale of Gas Appliances even before that.
I would think that president Trump would want to stop that crap in NY as well.
Hey California Democrats, FAFO.
A word to the wise, you might want to make peace with the Trump federal Administration.
I believe that NYs law states that it will follow CAs standards, but doesn’t set its own standards.
But if he does that, how can the “peaceful protestors” in LA afford their Molotov cocktails?
Show some balls, Mr President. Sign it with the Autopen.
EC
“Does anybody here think Cali’s EV mandate is just about Cali?”
I agree - the way it works is that if enough of the country is under EV rules, then it becomes VERY EASY for the feds to apply those rules to the rest of the country. That’s why it needs to be stopped NOW, rather than just laughed at by people in Red States.
It’s actually easier under such a regime for the companies themselves to simply switch to manufacturing EVs for the entire American market. Fed involvement not necessary.
Because it was part of the clean air act or something else.
Just because it was based on California’s ban it is still its own law for NY. In fact it has already begun.
Hochul should scrap New York’s gas car ban
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/hochul-should-scrap-new-yorks-gas-car-ban
California was given a special free pass by Bill Clinton. A free pass no other state got. Its high time that was revoked.
What mechanism was used for this? A law or executive order or something else?
California's Special Status:
It's important to understand that California has a special status under the Clean Air Act. Congress initially granted California an exemption from the preemption provision because the state had already adopted new motor vehicle emissions standards before March 30, 1966, and could demonstrate a need for more stringent standards than those established by the EPA. This exemption allows California to request waivers from the EPA to enforce its own emissions standards, provided those standards are at least as protective of public health and welfare as the federal standards and are needed to address compelling and extraordinary conditions.
In summary, while the Clinton administration was involved in facilitating the implementation of cleaner car standards and granting California a waiver for its greenhouse gas emissions regulations, California's ability to seek such exemptions stems from a unique provision within the Clean Air Act itself, rooted in its historical efforts to address air pollution.
Clinton admin claimed the Clean Air Act governed carbon emissions which it was never intended to. They then claimed that these "greenhouse gas" carbon emissions fell under the Clean Air Act's exemption for California for pollution (remember when LA had really bad smog problems in the 60s and 70s?). But of course, C02 is not pollution so California should have no exemption. The Trump administration is free to simply reinterpret this in the same way the Clinton administration reinterpreted it.
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