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Title: House Votes To Block California's Ban On New Gas-Powered Vehicles In
2035

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/1957...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: The House of
Representatives on Thursday voted to block California from implementing plans
to block new sales of gas-powered vehicles in a decade. In a 246-164 vote,
members approved House Joint Resolution 88, which seeks to withdraw a waiver
granted by the Environmental Protection Agency to California during the Biden
administration to implement the ban. Thirty-five Democrats joined 211
Republicans in backing the measure. [...] The House also approved two other
measures which withdraw waivers on the state's plans to increase sales of
zero-emissions trucks in a 231-191 vote, along with the state's latest
nitrogen oxide emission standards for engines in a 225-196 vote. Following
Thursday's vote, Newsom's office issued a statement saying the House
illegally used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal the state's Clean
Air Act waivers. The governor's office also said the move contradicts the
Government Accountability Office and Senate Parliamentarian who have ruled
the CRA does not apply to the state's waivers. "Trump Republicans are
hellbent on making California smoggy again. Clean air didn't used to be
political. In fact, we can thank Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon for our
decades-old authority to clean our air," Newsom said. "The only thing that's
changed is that big polluters and the right-wing propaganda machine have
succeeded in buying off the Republican Party -- and now the House is using a
tactic that the Senate's own parliamentarian has said is lawless. Our
vehicles program helps clean the air for all Californians, and we'll continue
defending it." Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California) said in a statement: "House
Republicans' misguided and cynical attempts to gut the Clean Air Act and
undercut California's climate leadership ignores the reality of California's
strength as the fourth largest economy in the world... ... If Senate
Republicans take up these measures under the Congressional Review Act, they
will be going nuclear by overruling the Parliamentarian, all to baselessly
attack California."

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