California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) passed the repeal of the California Electric Vehicle (EV) mandate in Congress on Thursday, which relies on a special exemption from the outgoing Biden administration in December. [emphasis, links added]
He declared sarcastically: “Make America fumes again.”
As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, the Senate canceled the waiver with a 51-44 vote, as did the bipartisan majority in the House.
The repeal relies on the Congressional Review Act, a bill in the Clinton era law that allows Congress to repeal unproposed regulations in a timely manner. Newsom said the exemption was exempt from scrutiny.
In a press statement, he vowed to Su:
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced today that the state will file a lawsuit in a “clean vehicle” program for the U.S. Senate target California, a move that will “make the U.S. smoke again quickly.”
The Republican-controlled Senate uses the Congressional Review Act (CRA) illegally to try to revoke California’s Clean Air Act exemption, which authorizes California’s clean car and truck program. This violates the precedent of decades of untrial to the CRA’s trial, contradicting the nonpartisan office of government accountability and Senate members, who both ruled that the CRA’s short-circuit procedure did not apply to the exemption.
But, as KCRA's Sacramento-era Ashley Zavala reported, California and American voters often don't vote for the approval of Newsom's EV authorization.
Newsom's authorization prohibits sales of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, although electric vehicle sales have not met their target.
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