Trump Will End California's Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times



WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is expected on Wednesday to formally revoke California's legal authority to set tailpipe pollution rules that are stricter than federal rules, in a move designed by the White House to strike twin blows against both the liberal-leaning state that President Trump has long antagonized and the environmental legacy of President Barack Obama.

The announcement that the White House will revoke one of California's signature environmental policies will come while Mr. Trump is traveling in the state, where he is scheduled to attend fund-raisers in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley.

The formal revocation of California's authority to set its own rules on tailpipe pollution -- the United States' largest source of greenhouse emissions -- will be announced Wednesday afternoon at a private event at the Washington headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to two people familiar with the matter.

A White House spokesman referred questions on the matter to the Environmental Protection Agency. A spokesman for the E.P.A. did not respond to an email requesting comment. Xavier Becerra, the attorney general of California, wrote in an email: "California will continue its advance toward a cleaner future. We're prepared to defend the standards that make that promise a reality."

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/climate/trump-california-emissions-waiver.html

[machoneman]

1. Lawsuit in 3-2-1...

I think the SC will allow Cally to continue to set their own standards because, if not, a slew of other 'states rights' laws would be in jeopardy.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. While vapping is harmful to your health, car exhaust is just great.

[iluvtennis]

5. + 1 nt

[Scalded Nun]

3. Nothing like small government, until you need it big

Would Cal not be able to deal with this as a 'state's rights' issue...regulation of their own air?

[Soxfan58]

4. Whatever happened

To States rights.

[Collimator]

13. States' Rights. . .

Are only important when you want to make a business profit by buying, selling, beating, raping and working to exhaustion other people.

They are not important when you want to stifle business profits by improving air quality for the general public.

[dalton99a]

6. The asshole is hell bent on killing Americans.

[diva77]

18. and destroying the environment, nat'l parks like Yosemite, Sequoia

[JI7]

7. i sooo wish for a long painful death for this shit stain

[groundloop]

10. Not too long though, the faster he goes away the better

[bucolic_frolic]

8. This is so vile

So short-sighted. People will develop lung cancer over this. Cancer is the Dump's legacy.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

17. If President Obama had cured cancer,

trumpie would try his damnest to roll that back, too.

[a kennedy]

9. He can't do that can he??

WTH???

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Here is info on the waiver they are operating under

https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/california-greenhouse-gas-waiver-request

And specifically it says that due to the law allowing CA to have such a waiver per this criteria -

According to the Clean Air Act Section 209 – State Standards, EPA shall grant a waiver unless it finds that California:

was arbitrary and capricious in its finding that its standards are in the aggregate at least as protective of public health and welfare as applicable federal standards;

does not need such standards to meet compelling and extraordinary conditions; or

has proposed standards not consistent with Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act.

So it basically says they pretty much MUST give CA the waiver (and the EPA can be taken to court for not granting if they can't show or justify that CA did not need the waiver).

[groundloop]

12. IMO it's like all the other bullshit he's done...it'll be tied up in court for years

[slumcamper]

14. Students of history, recall the "nullification crisis" of the 1850s

Then, the intentions of the federal government were rooted in and fortified by conscience and morality.

But this episode, quite the contrary.

CA is not MT or WY, and public policy relative to standards for air quality are very much contingent on local economic activity, population densities, geography, and atmospheric patterns.

Yet, the mean-spirited, spiteful blemish on 1600 PA Ave. wields a cudgel that pushes us closer to civil conflict. And the idiot minions known as his "base" will cheer, 'cause freedumb.

[rockfordfile]

15. That's something a traitor would do

[Panich52]

16. GOP SOP: hypocrisy...

Repubs, esp TPers, wail about states' rights. Yet watch em support Megalomaniac In Chief's order denying those rights

[apnu]

19. Dear 'states rights' Republicans, where are you now?

.

[Rebl2]

21. They only

believe in states rights when it suits them

[JohnnyRingo]

20. Are the feds going to take over state inspection stations?

Can't sell a car in California if it doesn't pass tailpipe emissions. What can Trump do if California ignores him, send in troops?

[not_the_one]

22. sounds like two options...

Gavin Newsome should say:

You can ignore federal subpoenas, California can ignore federal dictates.

or

Car manufacturers will either honor our guidelines, or they will not sell cars in California.

And you can't make us sell cars that do not meet our emission standards.

Somebody needs to tell the turd that the rules to play the game have changed...

[roamer65]

23. Test every new car at the California border.

If it does not pass, don’t allow it in.

You can definitely ignore the feds on this one.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. Has Trump ever driven a car?

I know it's not necessary for him to decide that pollution is good, but I get the feeling he's been driven around his entire life. He's lived in New York City, where he'll have had limos with drivers for the whole of his life (except for the occasional times he's had to slum it in a cab), and then he flies to other places, where again he'll have had a driver (not for him, standing in line at a rental counter).

So I wonder if he's ever done that everyday thing of driving himself on the road? Does this account for his strange, child-like behaviour at the wheel of firetrucks etc.?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

25. Yes. There are a few threads here about that.

Donald Trump Misses Driving. So Would You If You Owned His Cars

Donald Trump Misses Driving. So Would You If You Owned His Cars

Cars

Donald Trump Misses Driving. So Would You If You Owned His Cars

A look back at the cars the U.S. president used to enjoy from behind the wheel.

By Hannah Elliott
May 4, 2017, 4:01 AM EDT

{snip, a bunch of expensive imports and domestics}

[BumRushDaShow]

26. One of these

Otherwise he was generally chauffeured - e.g., -



https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2015/07/30/1973-meet-donald-trump/

[sal2019]

27. Republican Principles on Display ...

State's rights!, but not California ...

... Free markets!, but trade wars ...

... Support the troops!, but appropriate their priorities for pet projects ...

... America first!, but first let's see what the Saudi's want ...

... Family values!, but Trump.