Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to California Tailpipe Emissions Limits
The justices agreed to decide whether industry groups have suffered the sort of injury that gave them standing to sue over an unusual waiver.
I don’t think anyone asked Biden administration their opinion though
This shouldn’t require federal approval at all.
That’s a pretty major thing and I don’t think the state should be able to ban people from buying a gas vehicle.
It’s also a less good idea than people want to believe. Current gen batteries are still too heavy and eat through tires and other car parts too quickly. Plus the batteries need replaced after about 15 years and they’re still way too expensive to replace.
Tenth amendment is fairly clear on that one, one would think-
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Unless I missed something about cars in the constitution, of course. Interstate travel falls under the purview of the fed, but requiring gas cars for it doesn’t really hold weight. I suppose we could look at the transition from horse to car and see how that played out legally though.
I’m sure the party of states rights will take issue with it in a few months…
It’s not really a state rights thing though: my state is not allowed to do something like that on its own
This is a federal thing that there’s a specific exception for California and the rest of us can only follow them or stick to federal standards
Articles keep linking this back to the clean air act but I don’t remember reading where the exception is. If it’s in the clean air act, I don’t see how Trump can change that: it has to be Congress. If it’s an EPA regulation or executive exception, that’s another story, but hopefully would at least be time consuming
Sorry, what is “the federal thing” regarding CA banning gas cars?
Eat shit, other states. We’re dissuading ICE because it’s polluting Los Angeles. If your state doesn’t buy enough ICE to make it worthwhile that’s a “you” problem.
As I recall from past reading, California was just going to prohibit sale of new non-EVs in California. If you want an ICE or hybrid vehicle, you can just buy it from an out-of-state dealer, even after 2035.
California has a long history of barring registration of vehicles which do not meet its pollution standards. You’d need to not just buy out of states but fraudulently register it as if you resided in another state. Billionaires do this with eigth homes for their personal race cars, but basically nobody else does.
goes to look
Ah, apparently it only is permitted if a vehicle has at least 7500 miles on it. So can’t do it with a new vehicle.
