Lawmakers axed California’s ability to impose tougher auto emissions standards — a move that threatens to scramble decades of congressional and legal precedent and derail multiple states’ efforts to curb air pollution.
Senate Republicans Thursday rescinded California’s Biden-era authority under the Clean Air Act in a series of votes (
Revoking California’s ability to impose stricter-than-federal emissions standards under the law has been a top priority for congressional Republicans and the Trump administration. Two of the waivers have allowed ...