WASHINGTON - The Trump administration said on Thursday it is revoking California’s authority to set its own auto tailpipe emissions standards and to require some zero-emission vehicles - a decision that will spark a massive legal battle over the future of U.S. vehicles and the most populous state’s regulatory role.
“No state has the authority to opt out of the nation’s rules and no state has the right to impose its policies on everybody else in our whole country,” Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said at a press conference. “To do otherwise harms consumers and damages the American economy.” In a joint statement with the EPA, the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it is affirming that federal law preempts state and local regulation of vehicle fuel economy.
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All automakers should have to make vehicles for each states individual standards. It only makes sense
Isn’t that controlling the market an authoritarian action?
Not an issue. California buyer demand will fuel the market. They’ll buy the cars they’ve come to love.
Its not the state's job to reshape vehicle choice for citizens. Citizens chose which is the affordable option for them rather than being subject to regulations to strangle them deeper in debt.
And worsening the greatest threat to mankind...climate change.
DemocratGrandma Nonsense. Chao is stumping for her friends abroad and States can always enact stricter regs just not less strict regs. This will be another loss in the courts for Trump.
Trump wants what the government uses as law of land. Fine then let’s advise the states that have outlawed abortions that they must follow the law of the land. A woman’s right to choose IS THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Doesn't seem possible. I thought all state laws trump Federal. There's got to be other ways for the very smart lawyers in California to figure out a way to make the auto industry/lobby comply with the emissions that they want to see regardless of what this f****** admin. says.
California has run it's course. America is making a new plan
Dear leader will do anything to ruin the country and the environment.
Good. Nobody elected California to make federal law.
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