You know Andrew Wheeler, head of the E.P.A., revoked California’s authority to set emission standards. What you may not know is that other states' officials are siding with California, including Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
Here’s what Shapiro said: “The Trump administration has assaulted states’ rights, and Exhibit A is this clean cars law, where states have taken it upon ourselves to protect our citizens and now they are unlawfully trying to strip us of our authority.”
13 states had enacted California’s standards before the Trump administration declared them to be illegal.
Info for this post is from Coral Davenport, “‘Chilling Message’ in a Hard Line on California,” New York Times, (Oct. 4, 2019), p. A12.
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