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Trump administration officials threatened this week to withhold federal highway funds from California, arguing that it had failed to show what steps it is taking to improve its air quality. The move by the Environmental Protection Agency escalates the fierce battle between President Trump and the left-leaning state, and could put billions in federal funds in jeopardy.
In a pre-dated letter sent late Monday to the California Air Resources Board, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler suggested that the state has failed to carry out its most basic tasks under the Clean Air Act, and needs to either update its plans to tackle air pollution or risk losing federal highway funds. California receives billions in highway funding from the U.S. government every year, and federal officials have the right to halt that money if they determine that a state is not taking sufficient steps to show how it aims to cut air pollution such as soot or smog-forming ozone.
In the letter, Wheeler notes that 34 million Californians live in areas that dont meet federal National Ambient Air Quality Standards, more than twice as many residents than any other state. California has more than 130 state implementation plans, which serve as blueprints for how California would tackle these pollutants, awaiting federal approval.
California has the worst air quality in the United States, he wrote, adding that many of its plans are inactive and appear to have fundamental issues that would keep them from getting approved.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/24/trump-officials-threaten-withhold-highway-funds-california-its-chronic-air-quality-problems/?wpisrc=al_news__alert-hse--alert-national&wpmk=1
This is the same administration that revoked California's right to set stricter pollution regulations on cars. They are trying to have it both ways.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)He's been attempting to punish the state for quite a while now to no avail.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)progressive. That pisses off trump.
magicarpet
(14,145 posts)Fascist Dictator trDump - Ukraine like Extortion Doctrine/Racket.
(I hold your funding captive until you do the Mafia Boss a favor,.. then I release your funds. Extortion made pretty with lipstick,.. a tanned complexion,.. and gobs and gobs of hairspray.)
trDump says,... it is good to be king and rule by royal decree.
Normalizing the monarchy,.. the crown,.. and the royal house of the trDump dynasty by popular demand.
spanone
(135,829 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)SICK!
Impeach these motherf****rs!
RAB910
(3,501 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)They aren't trying to have it both ways, they're trying to screw us six ways to Sunday. The more pain he can cause us, the better. He is a cancer that needs to be cut out, bloody as it may be.