US judge bars EPA effort to send California vehicle emissions rules to Congress
The ruling pauses EPA efforts to use the Congressional Review Act to repeal waivers that let California set stricter vehicle emissions standards.
- On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from reclassifying California's clean-air waivers as 'rules' subject to Congressional Review Act repeal.
- EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin unilaterally reclassified four previously granted waivers as 'rules' last year, attempting to bypass the 60-vote threshold required for most legislation and trigger a simple-majority repeal.
- Judge Howell criticized the EPA's attempt to 'engage in Orwellian doublethink' by labeling waivers as 'rules' to Congress while maintaining they were not; California has used this waiver process for over 50 years.
- The court ordered the EPA to 'withdraw or correct' its reclassifications and submit a status report by September 21, preserving vital safeguards for 40 million Californians.
- California Attorney General Rob Bonta called the injunction a 'key victory' that rebuffs the Trump administration's effort to limit the state's authority to enforce emission standards.
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Strict clean air laws to stay in place, for now, in California - The Daily Bo Snerdley
(The Center Square) – California’s strict pollution and clean air laws will remain in place, at least for now, after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit against the Trump administration. For decades, the Clean Air Act has allowed California to set tougher emissions rules for cars, ships and other vehicles than the rest of the country, using special permissions known as waivers. While many Republican and Democratic pre…
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Strict clean air laws to stay in place, for now, in California
(The Center Square) – California’s strict pollution and clean air laws will remain in place, at least for now, after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
Federal Judge Blocks Trump EPA’s Efforts to Attack Clean Air Waivers - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, a federal judge granted California a preliminary injunction blocking EPA’s ...
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