Re: Gas-Powered Vehicles Saved in California

On May 23, 2025 at 4:26:16 AM PDT, "NoBody" <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On Thu, 22 May 2025 20:49:31 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
 

Today the Senate revoked California’s EPA waiver which allows them to impose
stricter air quality regulations than the federal government. This basically
torpedoes Gavvy Newsom's 2035 ban on gas-powered vehicles. He's spittin' mad
and is vowing to sue. I have no idea on what basis he plans to sue.
“California has a right, alone among all the states, to be exempt from
federal
regulations.” Doesn’t sound like a winning case to me.
 

 
And California is suing.

Yes, I pointed that out. This will be the 15th lawsuit AG Bonta has filed
against Trump since January. They seem to be really proud of all the tax money
they're wasting filing one lawsuit after another over things that are
perfectly legitimate even if California Democrats don't like them. Like suing
Trump for cracking down on illegal border crossings. I mean, ?!?!?! Even if
you're nuts and you believe the U.S. should have no borders and people should
be able to flood into the country at will, you can't go into court and argue
that Trump has no authority to enforce the border and expect to win, so I have
no idea what you hope to gain by suing over it other than wasting millions of
dollars of tax money.

I have no idea what valid cause of action they think they have over the EPA
waiver. It's well-established that regulating air quality is the federal
government's jurisdiction. The fact that California needed an exemption to do
what it's been doing in the first place is evidence that even California
recognized that the federal government has jurisdiction over air quality. They
seem to be arguing that once the federal government granted the exemption, it
could never revoke it or cancel it and take its legitimate jurisdiction back,
which is nonsense.