California is preparing to sue the federal government to regain its right to put on vehicle emissions, said Rob Bonta, the State Attorney General, in a statement.
Senate Republicans voted on Thursday 51 to 44 to overthrow a resignation that allowed California to set stricter air pollution standards for vehicles. The state has received exemptions more than 100 times Since federal laws granted the right about 50 years ago.
“The arming of the Congress’s revision law on the attack of California’s resignation is just another part of the continuous, party campaign against California’s efforts to protect the public and the planet from harmful pollution,” Bonta said. “As we said earlier, this reckless abuse of the Congress review law is illegal and California will not stand inaction.”
Sixteen other states and the Columbia region follow California emissions and most of them have implemented mineral vehicles. Other Senate votes abolished the exemptions that allowed California to set stricter emissions for medium and heavy -duty vehicles.
California’s EV command is actually a zero -emission standard. Starting in 2026, the state had to begin to require increased sales of zero emissions and trucks by 2035, when automakers only have to sell zero emissions vehicles.
Currently, two technologies qualify: hydrogen fuel cells and electric battery vehicles. Given the increasing pains experienced by fuel cells and hydrogen filling networks, the ECs quickly became the de facto approach to observing the California 2035 deadline.
Last year, 25.3% of new vehicles In California he qualified as zero broadcasts, and almost all of them were EVS. State command required 35% of new sales to be ZEV in 2026, something automakers I said would be “impossible.”
The increase in ZEV sales in California was flat in 2024, although in previous years it was different, with the share increasing from 7.8% in 2020 to 25% in 2023.
The vote on Thursday envisioned the previous one with the advice of the Parliamentary and the Government Bureau of Accountability, which both had ruled that the resignation could not be revoked by the Congress’s review law. Cra allows a simple majority of votes for a resolution to overthrow a regulation, allowing a Senate vote to proceed without threatening Filibuster.
Previously, California Attorney General Rob Bonta was “prepared for” democratic efforts to abolish broadcasting through CRA. “We don’t think it is appropriate use of the Congress’s review law and we are willing to defend ourselves if it is unjustly armed,” he said Political In early March.
Updated 7:37 am Pacific: California’s news were added to prepare a lawsuit against the federal government.
