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EPA to Unveil Plan to Take Away Californias Authority on Car EmissionsBy
Ari Natter and Ryan Beene at Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-09-17/epa-to-unveil-plan-to-yank-california-s-car-emissions-authority?__twitter_impression=true
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The Trump administration will announce it is rescinding Californias authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles on Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter, a move sure to set off a legal battle with the most populous state.
The Environmental Protection Agency intends to announce it will revoke the so-called waiver underpinning Californias power to set vehicle greenhouse gas standards separately from the Trump administrations broader rule to ease federal vehicle-efficiency standards, which is expected in the weeks ahead, the people said. The people asked to not be identified discussing plans prior to announcement.
Among those invited to the agencys headquarters for the announcement are free-market groups that have championed the Trump administrations rollback of automobile fuel economy and emissions standards adopted during the Obama administration. Plans for the announcement are still being developed and could change, one of the people said.
The move is almost certain to spark a lengthy legal battle over Californias regulatory powers that could throw the critical standards into uncertainty for years.
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applegrove
(118,462 posts)Hm hum.
hlthe2b
(102,105 posts)and Goddess-willing, this will be quickly reversed come 2021.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)stricter emissions standards for decades? How can they possibly take that away?
Hopefully, the state of California will essentially say Fuck You to that attempt.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)of Federal law that enables them to impose those standards.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Or do they just believe in them when they are stepping on the backs of women and POC?
Thekaspervote
(32,691 posts)Tennessee Hillbilly
(584 posts)if the state of California announced that it will ignore any directives from the EPA and continue to set and enforce its own mileage and emissions standards.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)But I don't know the legality of it.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)At the Federal level.
It's funny how Trump talks about states rights until it comes to something like this.
What should happen is that California's standard should be applied at the National level
pwb
(11,245 posts)I would rather walk than drive a trump polluter. Big oil republic assholes. R- Reverse