CAlifornia has always been one of the prominent environmental warriors in the country, as it created the environmental standards of cars and trucks that go beyond those imposed by the federal government. Vehicles all over the country are cleaner, more efficient and electric in greater numbers because of this.
But this could change if Donald Trump and its Republican allies can cancel the state’s ability to set the most stringent emissions amid a Crusade of the White House to combat climate friendly policies.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Groups and updates Its federal standards for all states on smoky fog and emissions from cars and trucks, which made the Biden administration more strictly last year, saying that they will provide American drivers thousands of fuel and maintenance costs over the course of a vehicle.
But for decades, California was Giving To make these rules more strict to help address some The worst fog and air quality issues In the associated nation A set of health effects This does not affect incompatible people.
The lawmakers in the House of Representatives recently voted to reverse those exemptions granted to California. On Wednesday, the Republicans of the Senate advanced forward with the efforts to dismantle the most striking air quality in California using a mechanism known as the Congress Review Law, which usually allows legislators to cancel procedures by federal agencies with a simple majority vote. This authority provides decisions under CRA to avoid the minority party.
The plan prompted anger from Democrats who call it a “nuclear” option, saying it is an unprecedented and illegal use of the statute. The government accountability office and the Senate Parliament agreed, saying that the exemptions from the Environmental Protection Agency are not subject to the review law.
“This step will be harmful to public health and the deterioration of air quality for millions of children and people across the country,” Senator Alex Badilla, Chaldon Whitos and the leader of the Senate minority Chuck Schumer said in a statement.
Cathy Harris, director of clean vehicles at the Council of Defense of Natural Resources, confirmed the ability of California to delegate strict emissions standards for cars, trucks and buses for nearly 60 years, noting that the state has granted more than 75 exemptions from the republic and democracy.
Among the concessions, the rules for increasing the share of electric cars every year include all sales of new car and trucks, in addition to the mandates that car companies will gradually provide cleaner vehicles.
The concessions were described as a “quadruple victory”, as they benefit from public health, air quality, drivers and economics as a whole.
“These concessions are not new or new,” Harris said in an interview. “California was historically innovative in systems to help produce cleaner air and capacity of California is a direct attack on our ability to reduce pollution and health pollutants in the air.”
She added that the abolition of concessions will immediately lead to an increase in pollution on the country’s roads.
more than Dozens of countries Follow the California Command in emissions standards, according to the California Air Resources Council. The standards now cover approximately 40 % of new light vehicles recordings and more than a quarter of hard vehicles such as trucks across the entire United States.
The car manufacturers largely followed the criteria of emissions in California also so that they could continue to sell cars there, as the state tied The fourth largest economy On the planet.
California governor Gavin New Roosom raised the bet in the nation’s future in 2020, announcing that his mandate will prohibit the sale of all new gas vehicles by 2035. It has turned Main car companies.
Joe Biden Administration He agreed to the plan at the end of his term. Trump, however – has pledged a severe discount of many climate efforts in the country – to see them reflect.
“California has imposed the most funny car regulations anywhere in the world, with mandates to move to all electric cars,” Trump said during his campaign last year. “I will end it.”
On Wednesday, newsom launched the battle as a back in the coffin for the American auto industry and contracts for public health.
“The US Senate has an option: waiver of the American auto dominance of China, the calm of our children, or the followers of the precedents and the clean policies of the air that Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon fought strongly,” the Republicans challenged in a statement. “Will you earn with China or America?”
The Senate’s decision on Wednesday to move forward in its plan to restrict California, which came in a loose series of procedural sounds that were delayed to the evening, may have comprehensive effects that exceed the borders of the state.
Harris said that she recently collected pictures of what was the air quality in cities throughout the country in the 1960s before the clean air law, was the main environmental law regulating air quality in the country, in effect. The normal levels of smoky fog in California were described as covering the state Like the horrific clouds of wild smoke That descended during the last firefighting seasons.
The American Lung Association also found this month Los Angeles remained the most swimming city of the country For the twenty -fifth time in 26 years of tracking, despite decades of improvements in air quality.
Harris said: “I think we have forgotten what was the air,” Harris said. “We consider it a foregone cavity because it is a policy that has been present for a long time, and we do not really get to know these direct benefits.”
“There is still a long road, we have not succeeded in cleaning the air completely yet.” “These types of policies help ensure we move in a positive direction.”
