Senate Strikes Down California EV Mandate In Blow To Biden’s Climate Agenda
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antithesis
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Posted 12:54 pm, 05/23/2025
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California wanted to enforce stricter vehicle emission standards, and the GOP Congress is saying that a state does not have the right to do that.
By definition, a Conservative believes in a smaller federal government, with more power to the states.
Do you support the US Senate restricting a state's right in this way?
Either way, do you think that this will not change after the next midterm election?
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DB Cooper
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Posted 8:49 am, 05/23/2025
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Trump is expected to sign bill, handing climate activists a major defeat.
The Senate approved a resolution Thursday that would revoke California's federal waiver allowing it and several other Democratic-led states to mandate electric vehicle sales, dealing a blow to activists' efforts to push green energy and fight global warming. [emphasis, links added] The resolution, introduced by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) in April, passed in a bipartisan 51-44 vote Thursday morning. Just one Democrat, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), voted in favor of the resolution alongside every Republican who voted. Five lawmakers were absent from the vote. "The impact of California's waiver would have been felt across the country, harming multiple sectors of our economy and costing hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process," said Capito, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The vote is a significant loss for both California, which passed its EV mandate in 2022, and for climate activists who loudly defended the law. https://climatechangedispat...v-mandate/
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