The Biden administration has officially allowed California to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in the Golden State by 2035. [emphasis, links added]
California has set strict emissions standards that will ban the production of new gas-powered vehicles in the state by 2035, but officials need a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to continue enforcing the order.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday it will approve two exemptions under the Clean Air Act to allow California to phase out gas-powered vehicles in the state, one of President Joe Biden's final acts to push the auto industry into green energy.
A waiver granted to California’s recent request Requires 35% of new car and light truck sales to be zero-emission by 2026 and 90% lower than current emissions by 2027.
Another exemption from the EPA allows California officials Require all new car sales to be zero-emission within ten years —The country’s strictest electric vehicle regulations.
However, President-elect Trump may soon revoke the exemption, He reportedly plans to repeal federal electric vehicle requirements and any exemptions the Biden administration issues for California.
“The crazy, job-killing electric vehicle mandate that just went into effect at the federal level, Crooked Joe Biden is preparing to slaughter the remnants of the U.S. auto industry by approving California’s exemption request to ban the sale of all gasoline-powered cars,“Incoming White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt told Fox News Digital during the campaign.
EPA Administrator Ronald Reagan said the exemption would “protect its [California] Residents are protected from dangerous air pollution from mobile sources such as cars and trucks.
However, Chet Thompson, CEO and president of American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, called the order “unlawful.”
“Contrary to the campaign's claim that it will never tell Americans what kind of cars we must drive, the Biden-Harris EPA is simply doing so by approving California's ban on the sale of all new gasoline and conventional hybrid vehicles,” Thompson said. at this point.
“These policies will harm consumers — millions of whom don’t even live in California — by denying them the ability to purchase new gas-powered vehicles in their home states and raising vehicle and transportation costs.”
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