Too Big For Their Britches? EPA May Strip California’s Ability To Set Own Emissions Limits

It's about time. We need standardized regulations across the country, not a patchwork of different requirements. Now I can't say if today's EPA is capable of creating a valid set of requirements that actually accomplish what is necessary.

Only works when you remove all the oil-sucking parasites in the government - federal and local - especially the one in the White House.

It is not going to work

California WON this case already in the Supreme court once before.
A state has the right to pass laws that are superior to the laws for the other states - the only thing the US government could do is prevent California from passing laws that are less than Federal standards.

Remember - the EPA is a REPUBLICAN invention - and it was put into place to protect the environment - the Fuel standards are basically a side issue. California simply will pass a law requiring new cars to emit LESS than the federal standards - and the Feds cannot stop that.

It's just Trumpism at work, demanding obedience and loyalty of CA. How dare California want to be cleaner that the rest? How dare California not believe that "clean coal" is the answer for their energy needs? Why should Washington care about California's geographic "pollution bowl" (the Los Angeles Basin) and its unique and serious pollution challenges?

And the facts about Scott Pruitt and the EPA are well-known, too. Pruitt is an anti-environmentalist and a climate-change denier. And yeah, #45 put him in charge of the Environmental *PROTECTION* Agency. Trumpism isn't about protecting the environment, or the welfare of The People. It's about more money for The Fabulously Wealthy and Well Connected. Well, that and a river of lies, deflection, derision, and conspiracy theories (which are sure to follow this post from triggered Daffies).

FWIW, I don't believe California will roll over and play dead in the name of Trumpism.


Reprint, as pertinent as ever (see "threats we face in the world", as it pertains to pollution)...
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"Donald Trump, champion and avatar of the shallow state, has won power because his supporters are threatened by what they don't understand, and what they don't understand is almost everything. Indeed, from evolution to data about our economy to the science of vaccines to the threats we face in the world, they reject vast subjects rooted in fact in order to have reality conform to their worldviews. They don't dig for truth; they skim the media for anything that makes them feel better about themselves. To many of them, knowledge is not a useful tool but a cunning barrier elites have created to keep power from the average man and woman."

- David Rothkopf
Professor of International Relations and Political Science
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No one cares about David Rothkopf.

And TheSteve and his Alt-Left cabal are rolling the worst aspects of communism, fascism, and socialism all into one. I think TheSteve must have posters of Rothkopf in his garage instead of the busty tool babe of the month.

So much for states rights.

Has nothing to do with state rights. It has more to do with interstate commerce, which is federally regulated. Cars cross borders all the time. Use the same regulations across the country. I just don't know if I trust the current EPA to keep the regulations that are necessary to continue maintaining the air quality we have.

California is a rogue state. Use California emissions standards for all 50 states, but to have a standard higher than federal only hurts the people and businesses California.

next step GUN laws.

@zlives: Why would anyone want more gun laws? You can easily make more school kids to replace the ones killed in mass school shootings. Just have more unprotected sex. Now that "Abstinence Education" is back as part of the school curriculum (thanks #45 and Evangelicals), the previously declining trend in teenage pregnancy has reversed, and is back on the rise again. The US is No.1 in this arena, compared to other industrialized nations.

See? Everything balances out.

Just borrow a page from the land of Sukdick Kon and outlaw guns so that knife attacks and acid attacks--which have exploded--are the mode of killing and maiming.

It's not people...it's guns.

Cue the Rothkopf cliche...

It's not just California. Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia follow California rules too. That's a sizeable chunk of the US market which has voted for higher standards and lower emissions.