President Donald Trump is set to sign a measure on Thursday morning preventing California from banning the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035, a White House official confirmed to the Washington Examiner.
He is also expected to sign two other resolutions blocking California from curbing tailpipe emissions in some vehicles and smog-forming nitrogen oxide pollution from trucks.
Trump will ban California’s first-in-the-nation emissions standards after Congress greenlit their repeal under the Congressional Review Act. The Senate voted late last month to block the regulations, roughly three weeks after the House voted to overturn them in early May.
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Under former President Joe Biden‘s tenure, the Environmental Protection Agency granted California a waiver to mandate that 80% of new cars sold be electric vehicles by 2035. The Golden
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