Trump Moves to Stop California From Fixing What He's Breaking

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

So much for states’ rights.

On Wednesday, President Trump announced his administration’s intention to strip California of its ability to set its own automobile emissions standards, revoking an Obama-era Clean Air Act waiver that allowed the state impose stricter regulations than those mandated federally. The move is the latest in a string of attacks from the White House against the environment, the state of California, and the policies of Trump’s predecessor, and it is expected to result in a legal battle between the state and the federal government that could ultimately reach the Supreme Court.

“The Trump Administration is revoking California’s Federal Waiver on emissions in order to produce far less expensive cars for the consumer, while at the same time making the cars substantially SAFER,” the president tweeted in announcing the news, which was initially reported on Tuesday. “There will be very little difference in emissions between the California Standard and the new U.S. Standard, but the cars will be far safer and much less expensive,” he added. “Many more cars will be produced under the new and uniform standard, meaning significantly more JOBS, JOBS, JOBS! Automakers should seize this opportunity because without this alternative to California, you will be out of business.”

In addition to the impact the action will have on greenhouse gas emissions, the move to block a state from setting its own standards is starkly at odds with Republicans’ supposed longstanding commitment to states rights.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler told the National Automobile Dealers Association on Tuesday that this was about protecting other states from California: “We embrace federalism and the role of the states, but federalism does not mean that one state can dictate standards for the nation.”

California officials are finding that pretzel of logic unappetizing. In a Wednesday afternoon news conference, Attorney General Xavier Becerra described the move as a “desperate plan to rob our state of its longstanding authority to set vehicle emissions standards.”

“Our message to those who claim to support states’ rights: don’t trample on ours,” added Becerra, who on Tuesday tweeted that he will take the administration to court if the waiver is revoked. “Doing so would be an attempt to undo the progress we’ve made over the past decades. We can’t afford that here in California. We cannot afford to backslide in our battle against climate change.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/california-climate-change-auto-emission-standards-886535/

[RainCaster]

1. Don't worry, the courts will slap that down

He will get educated once again by the courts about how laws work.

Pinhead

[wasupaloopa]

2. I moved to Los Angeles in 1982. The air was brown then. I got a job in downtown and took the

Pasadena freeway to work.

I moved in June. I was driving home one mostly clear day in Sept. to my surprise I was looking at the San Gabriel mountains. I never saw them from June to Sept. They looked large.

Now the air is clean enough to see the mountains every day.