Sacramento, California (AP)-The US house controlled by Republicans voted on Thursday to block California of the enforcement of rules for the first-in-the-nation rules in order to eradicate the sale of modern gas-powered cars by 2035.
The move comes a day after the chamber voted to stop the California standards in order to cut exhaust emissions from medium and high-ranking vehicles as well as the nitrogen-forming nitrogen oxide pollution of trucks.
“The adoption of these resolutions is a victory for Americans who are not forced to buy costly EVs due to the non -working mandates of California,” said the Republicans from House, Brett Guthrie from Kentucky and Morgan Griffith from Virginia. “If not lifted, the California exceptions would lead to higher prices for new and used vehicles, increase our dependence on China and burden our electrical network.”
For decades, California has authorized to say goodbye to vehicles that are strictly than that of the Federal Government. The democratic governor Gavin Newsom announced in 2020 plans to ban the sale of all modern gas -powered vehicles in the state until 2035 as part of aggressive efforts to reduce emissions from the transport sector. Plug-in hybrids and used gas cars could still be sold.
The state supervisory authorities then formalized the rules that some other states announced the plans to follow them, and the bidges administration approved the waiver of the state to implement them in December a month before President Donald Trump returned to office.
The house voices this week largely fell in party borders, although some Democrats joined the Republicans to advance them. This would be against the Council of the Senate Parliamentarian, who summarizes with the US General Accountability Office that the California guidelines are not subject to the review mechanism used by the house.
The Republicans used the congress review law, a law that aims to improve the monitoring of the congress monitoring of the actions by federal authorities in order to try to block the rules. The Trump administration in 2019 revoked California’s ability to enforce its own emission standards, but bidges later restored the authority of the state.
However, the California standards cannot be legally blocked with the Congress Examination Act.
Newsom said that the efforts were another signal of the ideological change of the Republicans over the decades from a time when former President Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan signed the landmarks of environmental laws, in which Trump penetrates everything from pristine air to pristine water and climate change.
“Clean Air used to be political,” said Newsom in an explanation. “Our vehicle program helps to clean the air for all Californians and we will continue to defend it.”
A spokesman for the California Air Resources Board, which said goodbye to the vehicles, said that the agency would continue to protect the public health of California, which are affected by harmful air pollution. “
It is unclear what will happen in the Senate. The Senate’s parliamentarian in April confirmed the knowledge of the GAO that the Clean Air Act in California is not subject to the Congress Review Act, according to the office of the California Senator Adam Schiff.
“We will fight this latest attack on California’s authority to protect its own residents, and I will ask my colleagues in the Senate to recognize the serious effects of violation with this violation of the rights of the states and the dangerous precedent, which it has determined by the trustworthy arbitration devices of the Congress from the trustworthy arbitrators,” said the democrat in one Explanation.
Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Safe Climate Transport Campaign, described the exploit of the Congress Check Act as a “back door”, which “shows how ruthlessly the Republicans behave”.
“Republicans regret that this Pandora Box opened and invite attacks on many other non-rules in the future if they are no longer responsible,” said Becker in a statement.
But the American Petroleum Institute and the American fuel and petrochemistry manufacturers applauded on Thursday and called it a “big victory for US consumers”.
“California’s illegal prohibition should never have been approved, and Governor Newsom should never have taken so much control over the American vehicle market,” said Mike Sommer, President and CEO of the Institute, and Chet Thompson, President and CEO of Manufacturer Group, in a joint explanation.
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Associated Press Writers Lisa Mascaro in Washington and Trân Nguyễn in Sacramento contributed to this report.
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